A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Acting
Wiig's fearless commitment to unlikable vulnerability.
Direction
Piven balances satire with genuine psychological depth.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes awkwardness with surgical precision.
Director
Shira Piven
Kristen Wiig
Alice Klieg
James Marsden
Rich Ruskin
Linda Cardellini
Gina Selway
Wes Bentley
Gabe Ruskin
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Deb Moseley
Alan Tudyk
Ted Thurber
Tim Robbins
Dr. Daryl Moffet
Joan Cusack
Dawn Hurley
Thomas Mann
Rainer Ybarra
Rose Abdoo
Connie
Shanna Strong
Teenage Alice
Kulap Vilaysack
Grace Dao
Loretta Devine
Barb Vaughn
Jack Wallace
Bud Klieg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2015, the film eerily predicted the influencer economy's obsession with monetized vulnerability and 'authentic' self-exposure.
Wiig and Piven developed Alice's physicality through extensive research, with Wiig specifically avoiding 'cute' mental illness tropes seen in romanticized portrayals.
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