Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Kristen StewartMallory
- James GandolfiniDoug Riley
- Melissa LeoLois Riley
- Joe ChrestJerry
- Ally SheedyHarriet
- Eisa DavisVivian
- Lance E. NicholsHamilton 'Ham' Watkins
- Tiffany CotyTara
- Peggy Walton-WalkerBrenda
- Sharon LandrySharon
Recommandations
- 75
Movieline
These are all people you feel you've met before in other movies, if not all at once. But the movie's saving grace is that they don't always behave as you expect them to. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Ken Hixon's script contrives a lot of mutual-healing set pieces and then sadly but shrewdly aborts them: That makes the drama more Chekhovian than "quite real." - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
The film wears its heart on its sleeve, but the drama falters when the tone grows over-earnest; additionally, Scott's direction fails to exert a tight grasp on his material. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Rileys has been casually dubbed "Kristen Stewart's stripper movie," but the handle doesn't stick: Stewart may wear skimpy clothes and grind once or twice from the neck down, but from the neck up she's all hollow, bruised eyes, twisted little mouth, and classic, coltish K-Stew rebellion. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The movie never overcomes the triteness of its premise. - 50
Village Voice
Try as Stewart might, she can't turn this Manic Trixie Nightmare Girl into a real person. - 50
Observer
Despite its good intentions, this earnest little film seems embalmed. - 42
The A.V. Club
The bluntness wouldn't be so oppressive if the film weren't so austere and glacially paced: Welcome To The Rileys is way too humorless.
