Open-faced Kristen Wiig stars as Alice, a borderline-personality woman who believes everything Oprah tells her about being a special person who deserves to win. And who, when she wins $87 million dollars in the lottery, decides to host a TV show about...herself. What starts out looking like a quirky attack on magical thinking turns out to be a sustained assault on television: the way it subsumes and distorts reality (more or less artfully) into a moneymaking enterprise. (When a channel offers a pickup on the show, what are they buying — and selling — if not Alice herself?) There's plenty of extraneous stuff: Alan Tudyk as Alice's gay ex-husband, Tim Robbins as her scolding psychiatrist, etc. But at the broken heart of things, you have a damaged person trying to heal by sharing her story with a world that's more interested in the damage than the person. Because that's entertainment! With Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack. (2015) — Matthew Lickona
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