Welcome to the Rileys

Kristen Stewart and Oscar winner Melissa Leo in drama about a teenie strip dancer, who gets inside the conflicts of a couple. Very intense indie drama. WELCOME TO THE RILEYS is a powerful drama about a once happily married and loving couple, Doug and Lois Riley (James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo) have grown apart since losing their teenage daughter eight years prior. Leaving his agoraphobic wife behind to go on a business trip to New Orleans, Doug meets Mallory, a 17-year-old runaway (Kristen Stewart) at a strip club and the two form a platonic bond. Doug announces to Lois that he plans to stay in New Orleans to help Mallory. Sensing her marriage is in jeopardy, Lois leaves the house for the first time in almost a decade and drives down to New Orleans.

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Storyline: Daughters
  • Coming of Age
  • family
  • mourning
  • parenthood
  • relationship

Actors

  • James Gandolfini
  • Kristen Stewart
  • Melissa Leo
  • Ally Sheedy

Director

  • Jake Scott

Drama


1h 45min


16 FSK

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United States of America
2010
Kristen Stewart and Oscar winner Melissa Leo in drama about a teenie strip dancer, who gets inside the conflicts of a couple. Very intense indie drama.

Kristen Stewart and Oscar winner Melissa Leo in drama about a teenie strip dancer, who gets inside the conflicts of a couple. Very intense indie drama.


WELCOME TO THE RILEYS is a powerful drama about a once happily married and loving couple, Doug and Lois Riley (James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo) have grown apart since losing their teenage daughter eight years prior. Leaving his agoraphobic wife behind to go on a business trip to New Orleans, Doug meets Mallory, a 17-year-old runaway (Kristen Stewart) at a strip club and the two form a platonic bond. Doug announces to Lois that he plans to stay in New Orleans to help Mallory. Sensing her marriage is in jeopardy, Lois leaves the house for the first time in almost a decade and drives down to New Orleans.

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