WHO’S IN IT?
Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), James Marsden (X-Men), Linda Cardellini (Daddy’s Home), Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Alan Tudyk (Serenity), Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), Joan Cusack (School of Rock), Thomas Mann (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), Loretta Devine (I Am Sam)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Shira Piven (Fully Loaded), director; Eliot Laurence (film debut), writer; Jessica Elbaum (Bachelorette), Will Ferrell (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues), Aaron L. Gilbert (Paradox), Marina Grasic (In the Blood), Adam McKay (The Other Guys) and Kristen Wiig (Girl Most Likely), producers; David Robbins (Dead Man Walking), composer; Eric Alan Edwards (Knocked Up), cinematographer; Josh Salzberg (We Are Young) and Kevin Tent (Sideways), editors
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Alice (Wiig), a woman who suffers from borderline personality disorder, wins a lottery draw and suddenly finds herself with $86 million. Now with more money than she can handle, and foregoing her medication, she decides to take the most logical step in her life: use her winnings to fund a TV show that is exclusively all about her and her quirky nature…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Kristen Wiig is at her quirkiest as a woman with mental issues in this comedy-drama that mocks not the mental illness itself, but the odd attitudes it can sadly come with.
