Welcome to the Rileys Welcome to the Rileys

Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.

Kristen Stewart James Gandolfini Melissa Leo Joe Chrest Ally Sheedy Tiffany Coty Eisa Davis Lance E. Nichols Peggy Walton-Walker Sharon Landry Kathy Lamkin Ken Hixon David Jensen Elliott Grey

Samuel Goldwyn Films

drama indie

110 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • htinlinn

    Review by htinlinn ★★★★

    A pretty good flick. And Kristen Stewart can act!

  • ArmPauloFer

    Review by ArmPauloFer ★★★★

    Acho o filme bastante mais interessante do que meramente dizer que "não é totalmente descartável". Vejo-o como um filme simples. Sim é simples... e é precisamente aí que reside a força do filme. Ser um indie simples (menos é mais) que dedicadamente, e sem subterfúgios, avança focadamente ao que se dedica a abordar e sem desvios.
    Trata dois temas em simultâneo, que num caso é a dor do luto e noutro é o ter de enfrentar a vida quando já não se tem perspectivas (e pior se se está solitariamente no mundo). Ambos sendo assuntos delicados, chegam ao fim bem resolvidos, conseguindo ambos obter um consolo e a redenção. Um filme que com a sua simplicidade, a extrema qualidade dos…

  • herrDominik

    Review by herrDominik ★★★½

    James spielt eigentlich Tony Soprano, Kristen ne Blaufleckige Minderjährige Stripperin und ansonsten kann man den Film ruhig mal anschauen.

  • Kent Dempsey

    Review by Kent Dempsey ★★★

    Script's a bit meandering at times, and unrealistic, but Gandolfini and Leo are great. Kristen Stewart's... well, Kristen Stewart.

  • Sarah Bailey

    Review by Sarah Bailey ★★½

    I didn't know you could make a film entirely out of wrong notes and missed opportunities, but apparently you can. The only exception is Kristen Stewart, who could not be more firmly in her wheelhouse with this character.

  • Vandammage80

    Review by Vandammage80 ★★★

    Stewart was weak as usual but Gandolfini and Leo are always good.

  • Charlie Derry

    Review by Charlie Derry ★★★

    A moving film in places, Welcome to the Rileys has an emotional story at its core. The performances are brilliant, with Kristen Stewart giving one her strongest, and her on-screen relationship with James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo is what makes this film worthwhile. There are few great looking shots and the film has a very nice indie feel to it which make the sloppy parts of the script work well enough in context, but I felt it could have been a lot stronger in most aspects.

  • Eli

    Review by Eli ★★★

    Going into this film, I didn't really know anything about it other than it starring James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart and that made it worth it for me. Neither one disappointed and I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. The characters' motivations were difficult to understand at times, but that wasn't due to sloppy writing, more so them being complex characters.

  • Mr. DuLac

    Review by Mr. DuLac ★★

    She's not Emily.
    -Lois Riley

    A very well made film with great performances that gets sabotaged by a script that insists on using complex situations with ridiculously simplified results. The set up had great potential for a drama with this cast, but after it gets going the interesting characters become unrealistic caricatures of their former selves.

    I thought the vile hatred I have for the Twilight film (only ever watched the first one) would prevent me from enjoying anything Kristen Stewart would ever do. Here she actually proves to be a decent actress and holds her own with the likes of James Gandolfini which is no small task. I do think it's Melissa Leo though that has the best performance here although none of the characters go in what would be their most interesting directions.