The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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Welcome to Me
Comedy · Drama · 2015
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Movie details
Welcome to Me
“Alice is going to be on TV whether you like it or not”
2015 Comedy · Drama 1h 27m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
5.9 / 10
19.8K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
74 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
69 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
5.9 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Welcome to Me?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Shira Piven
Written by
Eliot Laurence
Kristen Wiig
Alice Klieg
James Marsden
Rich Ruskin
Linda Cardellini
Gina Selway
Wes Bentley
Gabe Ruskin
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Deb Moseley
Alan Tudyk
Ted Thurber
Tim Robbins
Dr. Daryl Moffet
Court is in session
Put Welcome to Me on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.