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Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This was one of the worst movies I have seen. I felt the movie was a waste of time.The comedy in this movie is EXTREMELY deadpan, not an actual comedy movie, but rather someone who poured in money to get a movie up just like Alice did by buying her own tv show. Waste of time and leaves you feeling very crappy at the end of the movie. I suppose people who can relate to this situation IRL will appreciate the movie due to relatibility but for anyone else trying to enjoy a comedy movie, this is a horrible HORRIBLE movie. Not your typical funny movie to leave you with a light heart feeling great at the end. I regret every second I spent watching this movie thinking it would get better because Kristin Wiig was in it. Nope, it didnt. I think I lost interest in watching any of her movies moving forward.

This is a good movie, the acting is good even if I had the impression sometimes that the actress looked too normal for the role which gave the sense that she was acting this role and was not enough real. That said, I love this actress, she's excellent. What caught my attention is that even if the story doesn't need any sexual/romance plot, and could be really more interesting without, the writer injected that in the story, and managed to encrust a scene where we see the actress full body naked. I don't mind naked bodies when it's necessary for the story, in the shower, in a love scene, in the bath... It was not really necessary here, and I don't understand why good actresses accept it. It sounds just like a pretext for the creators, because the character is a woman, therefore she has to have a sexual activity and we have to see her naked. I don't see Dustin Hoffman having to do this as rain-man, or Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump either, does that remove anything from their story? I believe it is just an artifact of our time. Adult woman stories don't need sex or nudity to be viewed as adult. Story of a plain woman without the necessary nudity and sex belongs to the future. Sticking to these ingredients is not modern, because it's like we're stuck with them, it prevents the story from developing beyond and cuts down the character's charisma and dimension.For example, I wish we had seen the world more through her eyes in addition to the talk show, it would have been interesting to show how she interprets what people tell her, with cinematic effects or day dreaming scenes, or inner voice. The weakness of the movie is that it shows her from our point of view, not hers (despite her talk show), so all the drama in her life seems very trivial, it's almost like we mock her, but we don't understand her. We don't know how she really thinks. She just seems super crazy and it stops there. It made me think also of the movie "Requiem for a dream", what's with the craze for TV? Go to YouTube instead! There you can exist as you are ;)

Review: This movie had a really strange storyline, which I didn't find that funny, and the strange world that, lottery winner, Alice Kleig, (Kristen Wiig) built around herself was completely bonkers. Before Alice wins the $86million jackpot, she spent most of her life watching TV, and regularly sees her psychiatrist, Dr. Daryl Moffet, played by Tim Robbins, who helps her with her borderline personality disorder. She is also addicted to watching the Oprah Winfrey show, which she knows word for word, and she takes medication to control her outbursts and mood swings. When she wins the lottery, she decides to be in the audience of a live talk show, and when she is called on stage to help the presenter, she ends up taking control of the show by telling the audience her life story, which was completely weird. As the show is in debt and the brothers/managers, Gabe Ruskin (Wes Bentley) and Rich (James Marsden) need a lot of cash to keep the show running, April offers them millions to have her own show, all about herself. Rich accepts the proposal, against everyone's wishes, and her show turns out to be a complete disaster but as she keeps on pumping money into the project, she has the right to demand what ever she wants. As the show is only about her and her own little world, a lot of people leave the show because they can't put up with her strange demands. After a while, she comes to her senses and she starts to do good with her money, except for funding the ridiculous show which has no meaning whatsoever. I personally found the movie weird, and the fact that she jumped onto any man's bones, once they gave her attention, just made it go from bad to worse. The only saviour for the film was that she didn't change her expressions, even when she was asking for the weirdest of things, which made it slightly funny but apart from that, I didn't really see the point of the film. It does prove that having loads of money, really isn't for everyone, and she was totally better of when she was in her own little world, taking her medication. Anyway, although it's an original comedy, it basically wasn't for me, and I can understand why it didn't go down well at the box office. Disappointing!Round-Up: Kristen Wiig, 42, has a dry sense of humour, which has worked in movies like Walk Hard, Knocked Up, MacGruber, Date Night, Paul,her biggest hit, Bridesmaids, Girl Most Likely, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Her and Anchorman 2, and she has proved that she can turn her skills to serious roles like the Martian, The Diary of a Teenage Girl and the Skeleton Twins. She recently stars in the new Ghostbusters movie, Zoolander 2 and Masterminds, so she has joined the elite group of comedians, like Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, who all bring in hefty profits at the box office. She is much better in her cameo roles than when she is taking the lead, mainly because her dry sense of humour can only last a certain amount of time and it does become a bit tedious after a while. It's the first movie directed by Shira Piven, 54, who has also starred in Bob Roberts, Anchorman and Step Brothers. With her previous movies being with Tim Robins, who also starred in this movie, and Will Ferrell, it's not surprising that Ferrell produced this movie alongside her. I didn't really like the film that much, because I just didn't find it that funny and the storyline was just too crazy. It was good to see Tim Robins back on the big screen and Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh and James Marsden were quite funny but that was about it.Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: $650,000I recommend this movie to people who are into their drama/comedies starring Kristen Wiig, Wes Bentley, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, James Marsden,Thomas Mann and Alan Tudyk. 3/10

I'm adding a review as I think this film is sorely underrated. I've also seen others stating that the screenplay was confusing or lacked direction. I liked that the screenplay didn't insult the audience by preaching to us or telling us what to think. Instead, the story shows us everything we need to know about Alice and we're left to draw our own conclusions without the film adding its own judgement.As a BPD sufferer, Alice fears abandonment, is an emotional open-wound, sexually and financially impulsive without ever thinking through the consequences of her actions and incapable of empathy for other people or even seeing them as people. She over-shares, she tramples their boundaries and she struggles with her own identity.This is a clever, well balanced movie in that I laughed all the way through while still feeling bad for just how sad her situation was and at no point did I feel the movie was being unkind or mocking. The characters were well drawn and sympathetic, the performances (in particular Wiig) were excellent. The ending is also very cleverly handled, being ambiguously self serving and redemptive. I loved it.