![]() ![]() Male or female.”įittingly, when Welcome to Me director Shira Piven first read the film’s screenplay, she could envision only Wiig as Alice. ![]() “I don’t know anyone else who could pull off a role like this aside from her. “It’s this fearless, beautiful, sometimes small and real performance,” says Linda Cardellini, who plays Wiig’s best friend in the film. ![]() (And this is, at times, a really funny movie.) It’s a raw, real and expertly performed downward spiral, by a girl so good at wacky impersonations of Suze Orman that she doesn’t get the dramatic credit she definitively deserves. Her tunnel-vision narcissism is as uncomfortable to witness as it is amusing in the film’s lighter moments. Wiig delicately plays Alice as oblivious to the quiet mortification she is inflicting on herself. The film is often as funny as the premise sounds, and could easily have been the post- Bridesmaids broad comedy many had hoped for. She uses the funds to finance her own public access talk show, Welcome to Me, which consists entirely of Alice talking about herself: her vengeances, her philosophies, her whims. She plays Alice Klieg, an Oprah Winfrey-obsessed woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery. More, Welcome to Me is an unrivaled showcase for Wiig’s prodigious dramatic chops, featuring sobbing mental breakdowns, carefully calibrated mental illness, and a nude scene, to boot. In spurning the temptation to parlay her Bridesmaids success to become Hollywood’s next cash-cow star of moderately funny studio comedies, Wiig has instead carved herself what is probably the most interesting and unexpected career path of working actresses today. Wiig, we should be happy she’s doing the “dramatic stuff.” Welcome to Me, Wiig’s latest small indie that hits theaters Friday, is proof that, with due respect to Mr. “Why are you just doing dramatic stuff?’” “Even my dad’s asked me, ‘When are you going to comedies again?’” Wiig tells The Daily Beast. And in The Skeleton Twins, Wiig reunited with Saturday Night Live co-star Bill Hader.but it was a film about suicide. Hateship Loveship proved that her bag of behavioral tics served her just as well in literary-minded dramas as they did in broad comedy. She played a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Girl Most Likely, the teensiest of indies, was her first post- Bridesmaids starring role. But the lead roles she’d take in feature films rejected what most of us expected. There was still the comedy we’d come to love: excellent and hilarious turns in Arrested Development, Drunk History, and Anchorman 2. The trajectory Wiig ended up taking, however, was quite radical in its rebellion against that-as radical as writing a downright Apatowian scene in which a woman shits in a sink. ![]() We dreamed big: Big movies! Big comedy! Big things for Kristen Wiig! And the Patron Saint of Equal-Opportunity Laughs performing this miracle of female representation in the industry was the film’s star and writer, Kristen Wiig.Ī world in which Wiig headlined studio comedy after studio comedy-Target Lady follows in the career footsteps of Will Ferrell-was fantasized about by culture critics and fans of hilarious things, particularly hilarious women. The future of women in comedy rested on the shoulders of these women who were so brash and entertaining in the blockbuster Bridesmaids. It is a beautifully done film that is sure to be a holiday favorite this Christmas.In 2011, five women pooped themselves. The trailer below gives a look into what this film is all bout. This will lead him to the town of Elfhelm with his sidekick, a talking mouse Miika and a magical reindeer named Blitzen. He was born on Christmas, which is how he got his name, and in this film, he embarks on a journey to find his father. The King has charged his subjects with the task of bringing back a spark of magic to bring hope to the kingdom. Set in Finland, A Boy Called Christmas follows the story of Nickolas. While this may be way too early to watch this movie, many people have Friday off for Thanksgiving and will enjoy this movie the day of release. You will be able to stream A Boy Called Christmas on Friday, Nov. A Boy Called Christmas release time on Netflix Readers in the US will be celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend, and in between eating those delicious Thanksgiving meals and Black Friday shopping, Netflix has some Thanksgiving movies available to watch. Some wonderful new releases include Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, Snowbound for Christmas, Father Christmas is Back, Christmas Flow, and The Princess Switch 3. Many other holiday films were released in November, and more holiday favorites are on the way for December. One of the Netflix original holiday movies that will release this week is A Boy Called Christmas. Netflix has been giving us new Christmas content since the beginning of November. ![]()
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