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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #146. Shira Piven’s Welcome to Me

Published on February 10, 2014

Welcome to Me

Director: Shira Piven
Writer: Eliot Laurence
Producers: Kristen Wiig, BRON Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert and Marina Grasic, Gary Sanchez Productions’ Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Jessica Elbaum
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden, Will Ferrell, Alan Tudyk, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack

The reasons for penciling in Shira Piven’s sophomore feature definitely have nothing to do with her supporting acting talent and direct relationship to Adam McKay and has more to do with the combo of a promising premise and the screen crush we have on an actress (Kristen Wiig) who continually takes on atypical/challenging roles as most recently seen in The Skeleton Twins.

Gist: A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.

Release Date: Filming began in August and would had technically been ready for Sundance, but will likely find itself at TIFF this fall.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).