Austin Film Festival recension: WTTR


Austin Film Festival 2010 Review: Welcome to the Rileys
Rating: 3/5
Writer: Ken Hixon
Director: Jake Scott
Cast: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo 

Sometimes, when circumstance meets opportunity at just the right time in someone's life they might be inclined to do something unexpected... crazy even. The more severe the circumstance, the more probable the action will be all the more drastic when that opportunity presents itself. Often, the act of doing the unexpected leads to adventure: your old life is postponed, situations you would have never found yourself in present themselves, and relationships you never would have formed (and maybe never should have) become profound.

When Doug Riley (James Gandolfini) and Mallory (Kristen Stewart) meet at a seedy strip club just off the French Quarter, Doug has just embarked on the cathartic adventure on which Welcome to the Rileys is based, but Mallory just sees him as another mark. After Doug escapes to the champagne room, narrowly avoiding a group of generic businessmen from the convention he's supposed to be attending, he rejects the persistent Mallory who just wants to turn a trick and go back to the stage. She thinks he's a cop (and I would too, really) and storms out, only to have a chance encounter again with the troubled Mr. Riley at a local diner. Their friendship is fast-forming albeit somewhat peculiar given their differences, but the unlikeliness of these two meeting has an underlying sweetness found in the instant recognition of two damaged souls that have just found one another on an otherwise lonely night.

For most of us, the adventure would have ended there. But Doug Riley and his wife Lois (Melissa Leo) are living with a dark tragedy in their hearts – a tragedy that thankfully most of us will never have to endure. Their fifteen year-old daughter Emily was killed in a severe car crash... and the two understandably haven't been the same since. Doug is having an affair when we first meet him, and Lois glides around their house like she's part wife, part ghost. At first glance, their relationship seems perfectly normal given the fact that they've been married thirty years, but we slowly learn that the Rileys are suffering, and suffering deeply at that.


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