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Welcome To The Dollhouse

1995, Movie, R, 87 mins

Welcome To The Dollhouse: Review

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
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Hilarious and stunningly frank, writer-director Todd Solondz's evocation of awkward adolescence is a bracing antidote to the counterfeit nostalgia of The Wonder Years or My So-Called Life. Junior-high misfit Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is the patron saint of cootie girls, complete with nerd glasses and clueless wardrobe. At home, she's a put-upon middle child -- her younger sister is an adorable ballerina; her older brother, a brainy computer geek. At school, the cool girls torment her mercilessly, calling her "wiener dog" and "lesbo" (she's too dorky even to register on the radar of cool boys). Her parents offer little in the way of sympathy or support, and even her teachers treat her with spiteful indifference. But Dawn (portrayed with spirited honesty by 11-year-old Matarazzo) isn't one of those sensitive, misunderstood outsiders a la REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE or The Catcher in the Rye. Dawn's a victim, to be sure, but Solondz admirably refuses to romanticize her predicament: She's abrasive, unsightly, socially maladroit and a lot more like us than we want to admit. leave a comment
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