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'Welcome to the Rileys' Review by Telerama France

By | Published Wednesday, November 10, 2010

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A pair of ordinary quinquas,emotional lethargy since the death of their daughter,fancing to save a young stripper clueless...Cliches,perchi-percha? If he did not like his father,the taste of the flambouyant historical epics (Robin Hood) the son of Ridley Scott is a fine actors,Director sachant bypass most of the pitfalls of her subject draws-tears.

Well helped by his actors,it is true : it is the imposing James Gandolfini , Soprano, who plays the VPP ex- Tony en vadrouille,falling by chance under the spell of the gogo dancer.This is the great Kristen Stewart revealed by Twilight interprets it.She focuses on her (gorgoeus) face endemic melancholy almost despair of birth w/c enriches all of his characters.These two - there are couple both touching & unlikely (it was mastoc,she is almost stunted) that comes complete,suddenly the wife of Mr...Astucieux scenario aoids the trap of happy end & emotionpoints here & there.


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New 'Welcome to the Rileys' Film Review by LeFigaro: "Sensitive, Moving"

By | Published Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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James Gandolfini (Doug Riley) and Melissa Leo (Lois) are a couple who can not mourn the disappearance of their daughter. The story tells of the meeting of Doug and Mallory (Kristen Stewart), a  young prostitute.




Ridley Scott's son, signed at 45, his second feature film. 

So far Jake Scott, son of the great Ridley, especially distinguished himself by carrying ads or video clips of rock bands, U2, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Oasis and Massive Attack. 

After a first film and MacLeane Plunkett (1999) came out quietly, he signed at age 45, a second feature film, Welcome to the Rileys , who offers James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano the former series of David Chase) one of the most exciting roles in his career. The story tells how a couple of fifties (James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo) is unable to recover from the death of their daughter. During a trip to New Orleans, Doug Riley met by chance a young prostitute (Kristen Stewart) who reminds him of his daughter ... " In the beginning, Doug was not to be played by James Gandolfini, Jake Scott reveals, however, with a half smile. For me, Gandolfini has always been Tony Soprano. But I met him and I immediately realized it would be perfect in the role. He has this incredible potential, the force that can be destructive. I remember one day on set, dissatisfied with his performance, he started screaming, rocking stuff and eventually push the wall of a punch. 

At the same time, his gentleness, his kindness, his care for others are obvious when it occurs. His character, Doug, has the same qualities. Doug has great principles. His manners define it. His gentleness and dignity too. "In Welcome to the Rileys, Gandolfini co-starred with Kristen Stewart, the face of the Twilight saga. " He was fascinated by it, says Scott. On the set, James has always been very caring, he always looked after her. "With the critical success of this film, the young director already preparing a thriller filmed in Scotland, Transit, a dark tale of revenge, and a second film based on the book by Jonathan Green, Murder in the Himalayas, located in Tibet. To be continued ... 

Sensitive, moving, just...

During a business trip to New Orleans, Doug Riley (great James Gandolfini), who has yet to mourn the death of his daughter after ten years, meets Mallory (Kirsten Stewart), a stripper in a club in town. The paternal affection he feels for it disrupts his life ... When a grieving father trying to save a girl from the streets. Chronic sensitive, touching and just signed the son of Ridley Scott, Welcome to the Rileys magnifies the unlikely meeting of two hearts and beautiful adrift. 

Welcome to the Rileys, Jake Scott with Drama: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo. Duration: 1 hour 50.

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New 'Welcome to the Rileys' Interview With Kristen!

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'Welcome to the Rileys' Review: Great Work Done by Gandolfini, Leo and Stewart

By | Published Monday, November 8, 2010


It's no Pretty Woman, but there's always a bit of suspended disbelief necessary when Hollywood makes a film about a well-meaning man trying to rescue a prostitute who is down on her luck or just trying to pay her bills.


In the case of Welcome to the Rileys, great work by James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Melissa Leo (Treme) and Kristen Stewart (Twilight) make it solidly entertaining.

And director Jake Scott does a great job of setting most of the the film in New Orleans without making the city into a character or distraction. There's only one roving second-line marching through a brief scene, and the only bad accent is the Midwestern twang Gandolfini occasionally overplays.


Doug Riley (Gandolfini) and wife Lois (Leo) have slipped into a lifeless marriage in suburban Indianapolis after the death of their teenage daughter. Doug travels to New Orleans on a business trip, and in his boredom and loneliness finds himself in a strip club — and kudos to Scott for having him pass by Bourbon Street addresses for the grittier Iberville clubs, where he meets underage stripper Mallory (Stewart).


Her life and outlook are sufficiently rough and crass to give the film a dark edge in dialogue and tension. Doug's attempts to reach out to her hit a decent balance of improbability and originality, given how heavy-handed the story is about him seeing her as a surrogate daughter.

But he throws enough money her way to make her trust of a weird middle-aged man (who's apparently not trying to have sex with her) at the very least a good business arrangement. It's all a strange and sweet moment discovered by two people struggling at particular points in their lives, until Lois reminds Doug he has a family and issues to deal with closer to home.


Gandolfini is excellent as the resolute but not outwardly emotional Doug. Stewart again finds herself surrounded by blood-sucking suitors, and she handles the foul-mouthed and reckless Mallory well. Leo is again compelling as a mystified wife trying to recover a husband sold on a soul-saving mission in New Orleans.


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James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart Receive Praise for 'Welcome to the Rileys'

By | Published Monday, November 1, 2010





James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart are praised in Jake Coyle's Associated Press review of Jake Scott's Welcome to the Rileys.




The film itself gets a detailed plot description, good words for Scott's understated direction, and a major complaint about Ken Hixon's screenplay of the "save-the-prostitute-with-a-golden-heart" variety.


Below are a couple of snippets in which Coyle discusses Gandolfini and Stewart:


The scenes between Doug and Mallory are the best thing in Welcome to the Rileys - Gandolfini, with a believable and not overstated Southern accent, plays reformer. Stewart, in what may be her best performance yet, warms to his caring while vacillating between hard rage.


She's all elbows, shifty eyes and a nest of hair. Stewart has the habit of biting her bottom lip, a gesture she should be careful not to overuse. But she's a captivating blend of fragility and strength.

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Gandolfini Talks About Kristen

By Anonymous | Published Tuesday, October 26, 2010


A gentler Gandolfini. Sopranos star a do-gooder in indie film.

LOS ANGELES — Doug Riley is no Tony Soprano.

The bottled-up plumbing contractor James Gandolfini plays in the new indie movie Welcome to the Rileys could hardly be more different from the cable TV crime boss that made the actor famous.

“Kinder, gentler, older, fatter . . .” Gandolfini jokes about his latest appearance on theatre screens in selected cities. But like much of the work he’s done since The Sopranos came to its ambiguous end three years ago — such as In the Loop’s dissident but tentative general, his voice-over for one of Where the Wild Things Are’s volatile beasts or the Tony-nominated performance in the award-winning play God of Carnage — the actor was really drawn to something rich, deep and challenging about Riley.

“It was different,” Gandolfini, 49, says. “There was a stillness. And at the time, I’d just come from playing somebody whose every small emotion was, to him, a huge deal. Doug doesn’t think his emotions are that valid.”A quiet man with a southern Indiana drawl — itself quite a change for the New Jersey native — Doug has yet to get over the car-crash death of his teenage daughter.

He hasn’t taken it as bad as his wife Lois (Melissa Leo); she’s never left their home in the years since the tragedy. But Doug needs something, and discovers it in the unlikely person of a teenage stripper he meets while attending a trade show in New Orleans.

No, it’s not that. Kristen Stewart’s Mallory — or whatever her real name is — brings out all of Doug’s stymied paternal instincts. He devotes himself to helping her and trying to nudge her off of the downward path she’s taken.

“When you get to a certain age, you start questioning things,” Gandolfini muses. “In my life, I’ve been very lucky, but I think there are people who are unlucky, and not through any fault of their own, really. So I think Doug is contemplating — How did all of this happen? — and he just needed to go somewhere and figure it out. A lot of people would like to do that if they could.”

Maybe. But things like spouses tend to disapprove. When Lois gets an ambiguous I’m-not-coming-home call from Doug, she uncharacteristically jumps in the car and heads for the Big Easy. Things take a surprising turn when she learns what’s really going on.

Though deeply emotional, nothing about the production ever felt inappropriate, Gandolfini assures us.

“Not because I’m all that decent a human being, but it never crossed my mind to read anything lecherous into the relationship,” he says.

Gandolfini was also greatly impressed by Stewart, who between blockbuster Twilight episodes, has been building quite a gallery of lost-girl portraits in indies like The Yellow Handkerchief, The Runaways and Adventureland.

“She’s a young girl who reads,” he marvels. “She’s questioning things and she works very hard to do things that mean a lot to her. I like Kristen a lot and admire her. Especially when I think of myself at that age — which was, y’know, ridiculous.”

In his own pursuit of things that matter, Gandolfini has produced and appeared in another military documentary, Wartorn: 1861-2010, for HBO. The Sopranos network played his first such effort, Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, and the new documentary about the history of post-traumatic stress disorder debuts on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

“I was told that a lot of soldiers watched The Sopranos in Iraq,” Gandolfini says of how he got interested in military subjects. “So I went over there and met a lot of them, and I was really impressed by the quality of these kids. I respected their honour and duty, and taking care of what they have to take care of. Whether I am for or against this whole thing that’s happening, I think that we owe them, at least, to pay some attention. We are at war, and the cost to these kids coming back and the cost to their families are some things we need to look at.”

While the work is rewarding, Gandolfini was never very comfortable with the fame that came from being TV’s favourite neurotic mobster. After three years, he says, that aspect of success has become more bearable.

“It took a little bit — everybody kisses your a– a little bit —
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