To me, this movie is perfection.

Don't Believe the Hype

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a great family drama. The story says that middle-aged man survives the death of his daughter and the emotional attachment to a young prostitute, whom he wants to help. I can understand their feelings. From personal experience, I know what death of close person bring to marriage. Alienation, misunderstanding, resentment. I've lost stepdaughter, and I know for these feelings ,as they appear in the film. His need for saving a young person, who went on the wrong path ,is natural. He blame himself and his wife for the death of their daughter, and now,trying to improve himself by helping a young girl. On the other hand, her binding to these people is also natural,despite the dissolute life that she leads , in her soul , she feels the need for family, safe house, and this is the thread that bound them. For me, film is not excessive in feelings. And the end is excellent, everyone in the story realized what is reality.

On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman. Welcome to the Rileys is a movie that truly shakes you in a way on it's own thanks to 2 amazing performances by the great and late actor James Gandolfini who plays Doug Riley a man who is in pain and very close to his self after a tragedy occurred and then we have Mallory a young girl who works in a strip club and somehow this man takes her under his wing and he wants to save her at the same time tho he calls his wife Lois played by Melissa Leo to come over and in a way too she tries to help her too. Although Mallory refuses to obey by the end of the film the last scene is her calling Doug telling him goodbye and that she is leaving and in a way all 3 characters found happiness and redemption. Welcome to the Rileys is not for everyone but for sure it will find it's right audience.

I think the movie was great. All three actors acted really well. The story of the movie is not at all predictable. This is the reason why it grasps your attention. You want to see more of it when it ends. Kristen Stewart has done a real good job portraying a 16year old runaway and stripper. She was awesome in her character. This movie actually shows how a 16year old girl is independent and does not need support. The character is very strong. I really liked it. I would recommend that everyone should see this because this movie is different. It is a very interesting movie and people will enjoy it. I was glad that the story does not end how we hope. Some times a change makes you feel good.

Jake Scott, son of Ridley Scott, directs "Welcome to the Rileys", an intermittently interesting drama which stars James Gandolfini as a grieving father who bonds with a young stripper as a means of overcoming the death of his daughter.It's a conventional film, and actress Kristen Stewart, too precious and self-consciously cutesy, never convinces as a grungy stripper, but there are nevertheless some interesting things scattered about. Scott nurses some atmosphere out of his New Orlens locations, the visual contrast between Gandolfini's huge, bulbous body and Stewart's near anorexic frame is morbidly interesting, and the film manages to skirt around the erotic fantasies these guy-and-stripper tales usually trade on.Like most films set in New Orleans, "Welcome to the Rileys" is creepily white and middle class. Here's a city with an almost 70 percent African American population, and a film with nary a black face in sight. A city wrecked by, and abandoned after, Hurricane Katrina, and a film in which our focus is on a rich white guy with daughter issues. What the hell?7.9/10 – Worth one viewing.