Viewers will find solace in Melissa Leo’s magic.
WELCOME TO THE RILEYS was for this reviewer all about Melissa Leo’s performance of Lois Riley and her delightful transformation in the film - the fiery-haired actress consistently delivers. James Gandolfini (adopting an uneven Midwestern accent) and Kristen Stewart deliver passable performances, but in the end we’ve seen a kindly man save a beautiful stripper from herself so, so many times before that the end result just isn’t entirely original.
In the movie we find Doug and Lois (Gandolfini and Leo) in an unhappy marriage, having grown apart since losing their teenage daughter in a car accident eight years before. Doug leaves his agoraphobic and practically zombified wife behind for a business trip to New Orleans, where meets a 17-year-old runaway (Kristen Stewart), and the two form a platonic bond.
The movie gets off to a murderously slow start as it spends way too much time establishing the couple’s unhappiness in a drab section of suburban Indianapolis. It begins to take off however as Gandolfini begins a series of dramatic changes to his life, starting with taking Stewart under his wing.
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