Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

adrian-43767 This is a simple film, constructed gradually, and one guided by a great sense of humanity. You do not know why Gandolfini goes into a strip joint, but he does, and there the stripper offers him sex. He pays like a customer but declines sex and you subsequently find out that his daughter, of about the same age as Stewart, had died in a car accident a few years earlier. His relationship with his wife, excellently portrayed by Melissa Leo, is very touching, and one based on mutual respect and trust, and both come to see Stewart as someone who could have been their deceased daughter.There is nothing soppy or sentimentalistic abut this movie. Stewart is a foul-mouthed and unkempt prostitute and drug addict, but the love shown by Gandolfini and Leo gives her a new outlook on life and she seems ready to change by movie's end.I found WELCOME an uplifting and humane film, and recommend it.

Claudio Carvalho In Indianapolis, Douglas Lloyd 'Doug' Riley (James Gandolfini) and Lois Riley (Melissa Leo) are a estranged couple married for almost thirty years that grieves the loss of their fifteen year-old daughter Emily. Doug is a well succeeded businessman in plumbing business that likes to play poker every Thursday with his friend and to meet his mistress, the waitress Vivian (Eisa Davis), after the game. Lois is agoraphobic, takes many pills and does not have sex with Doug. When Vivian unexpectedly has a heart attack and dies, Doug goes to the cemetery and finds a tombstone that Lois has ordered with her and his names. This is the last straw in their relationship and Doug travels to a plumbing conference in New Orleans feeling lost. Doug is wandering on the streets and stumbles with a nightclub. The young stripper and prostitute Mallory (Kristen Stewart) invites Doug to a private lap dance and when he see his acquaintances from the conference in the nightclub, he accepts her invitation to hide from them but he does not have sex with the teenager. There is an incident but then he takes Mallory home and decides to stay in her derelict house to help her. Doug calls Lois and tells to her that he would stay in New Orleans for a while. Lois decides to drive to New Orleans in Doug's car and he introduces her to Mallory, whose real name is Allison. The couple projects Emily in Allison, but is there still hope or is it too late for Allison and themselves? "Welcome to the Rileys" is a family drama supported by the magnificent Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo. Kristen Stewart is an actress that seems to be tailored to indie movies. The screenplay discloses the past events that have separated Doug and Lois to the viewer piece by piece. The story could have been of second chance in life and redemption, but the writer Ken Hixon chooses a more realistic conclusion but leaving some hope. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Corações Perdidos" ("Lost Hearts")

Raul Faust I'm really mad for those who gave me good recommendations about this film. It's bad in many aspects. For instance, it sounds inaccurate to portray a stripper who works also as a hooker; the story should allow spectator to notice that being a stripper doesn't necessarily mean you're also a hooker. Also, Mr. Riley felt unhappy for some reason, and he decides he wants to talk to someone. Where does he go to? To a psychologist, maybe? To a friend's house, who knows? NO! He goes to a strip club! Of course, you need to talk to somebody and you go meet a stripper, because that's what they're paid for! For some odd reason, she tries to hook up with him a few times, and he doesn't accept because... er, I don't really remember. The fact is that Mr. Riley assumed he cheated on his wife with at least two different girls, and when he goes to a strip club, he decides not to? That doesn't sound particularly plausible. And when Mr. Doug calls his wife to tell her he's temporarily moving out... She realizes he's cheating on her, and what does she do? She says "I know I've been... (a bad wife maybe)?", practically forgiving him to be cheating on her, because it was her fault. I mean, come on! Until the point I paid any attention-- I turned it off around the first hour--, we had no clue why Doug was so unfaithful with his wife. The plot was boring, implausible, slow-paced and without any perspective. Directing was just lifeless. I'm only giving it 3 stars in respect of the actors involved in this, since they weren't that bad. Weak movie, no wonder why it flopped!

tieman64 Jake Scott, son of Ridley Scott, directs "Welcome to the Rileys", an intermittently interesting drama which stars James Gandolfini as a grieving father who bonds with a young stripper as a means of overcoming the death of his daughter.It's a conventional film, and actress Kristen Stewart, too precious and self-consciously cutesy, never convinces as a grungy stripper, but there are nevertheless some interesting things scattered about. Scott nurses some atmosphere out of his New Orlens locations, the visual contrast between Gandolfini's huge, bulbous body and Stewart's near anorexic frame is morbidly interesting, and the film manages to skirt around the erotic fantasies these guy-and-stripper tales usually trade on.Like most films set in New Orleans, "Welcome to the Rileys" is creepily white and middle class. Here's a city with an almost 70 percent African American population, and a film with nary a black face in sight. A city wrecked by, and abandoned after, Hurricane Katrina, and a film in which our focus is on a rich white guy with daughter issues. What the hell?7.9/10 – Worth one viewing.