Kristen Wiig Stars in First Trailer For WELCOME TO ME

What happens when a young woman with Borderline Personality Disorder wins the lottery?

In the case of Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig), she quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show. Inspired by the immortal Oprah, she broadcasts her dirty laundry as both a form of exhibitionism and a platform to share her peculiar views on everything from nutrition to relationships to neutering pets.

Watch the trailer for WELCOME TO ME, directed by Shira Piven from an original screenplay by Eliot Laurence.

Wiig was intrigued by how real the bizarre and darkly-­‐funny script felt, which she says made the “comedic parts even more funny and the dramatic parts more amazing.”

She hopes that the audience will have the same love-­‐hate relationship with the character that she does. “You feel sorry for Alice and at the same time, you totally get why people are frustrated with her, and yet you’re rooting for her. With her having this disorder and the way it manifests and comes about by her having success and notoriety and all of this money, it was a very interesting way to watch someone unravel as they have all of these supposed good things come to them.”

Also starring Wes Bentley, James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Linda Cardellini, Alchemy will release WELCOME TO ME in theaters May 1st.

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