It's only been a week since the 82nd Academy Awards, but studios and distributors alike are already planning which films will be positioned as awards contenders for the next awards season. It's not that the companies behind these films think they are all true Oscar contenders, hardly, but that the "prestige" label will help generate publicity and box office. One relatively new outfit, Apparition, had strong box office in 2009 for two films that were never real players: Jane Campion's "Bright Star" and the Emily Blunt period piece "The Young Victoria." Now, the Bob Berney and Bill Pohlad company is primed to play the game once more with the Sundance drama "Welcome to the Rileys."
Directed by Jake Scott (Ridley's son), "Rileys" follows Doug Riley (James Gandolfini) as he takes a break from his real life in Indiana to help an underage hooker (Kristen Stewart) in New Orleans that reminds him of his deceased teenage daughter. Melissa Leo plays his wife who, in a desperate bid to save their marriage, breaks from the confines of her agoraphobia and begins a journey to the Big Easy where lots of awkward moments between the trio occur.
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