Since leaving Saturday Night Live and even in the wake of the mainstream success of Bridesmaids four years ago, Kristen Wiig has refused to get stuck in big studio comedies. Instead, she has made herself readily available to indie filmmakers with famous friends. That's a dangerous move, but if she keeps making projects like Welcome To Me, it's a decision that will pay off.

Directed by Shira Piven and written by Eliot Lawrence, Wiig stars as Alice Kleig, who suffers from borderline personality disorder. During the opening credits, we are introduced to her life, with involves watching The Oprah Winfrey Show, buying a lottery ticket and more Oprah. When she suddenly wins $83 million from the California lottery, she decides to use her money by creating her own Oprah-style talkshow. To get on the air, she hijacks an infomercial station that's so strapped for cash, they accept $15 million from her, no questions asked.

Alice's show, titled Welcome To Me, is all about different aspects of her life with actors coming in to reenact even her worst memories. She goes off her medication and starts angering her parents and her only friend, Gina (Linda Cardellini), with her revealing stories on air. Alice has to learn that she can hurt others just like she was in the past or her entire support system could crumble.

Wiig and Linda Cardellini aren't the only big names in this film and considering that Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are producers, it's no surprise that Piven got a fantastic supporting cast. It is just a bit sad that many of them feel underused. If lesser-known actors played roles that went to James Marsden, Wes Bentley, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Cusack and Alan Tudyk, we wouldn't complain. Leigh is particularly frustrating because she has such a small part and leaves the film early on and Robbins' last scene involves him speaking to Wiig through a camera.

The story itself should remind you a bit of Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, in which Robert De Nrio wants to be on TV so badly that he kidnaps Jerry Lewis. Laurence's script is much lighter than that, but it still has the same idea. We all want to be on television, but what would happen if we had some twist that would actually let us get there.

Wiig is also an excellent comedic actress and it's a shame that she didn't make more movies while she was on SNL. She plays Alice with a hint of sadness that never leaves the viewer. Yes, she is often hilarious, but you never forget that Alice is suffering from borderline personality disorder and not just doing it for cheap laughs. She's not on TV because she wants to be funny, but she's on TV because it was the only way she could connect to the real world and get back at people.

Running at a brisk 87 minutes, Welcome To Me doesn't get quite as deep into the media angle as it could have. But that's for the better. Piven, as revealed in the all-too-brief seven-minute featurette on the Blu-ray, didn't make this film as a comedy or to make fun of anyone suffering from the disorder. It's a touching drama that happens to have a few really funny parts in it. Piven and Laurence are more interested in the character of Alice and showing how she learns to embrace the ones that love her.

'Welcome To Me' is available on VOD. Alchemy's Blu-ray hits stores on June 16.