Welcome to the Dollhouse
by Todd Solondz
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Actor: Christina Brucato, Christina Vidal, Heather Matarazzo, Siri Howard, Victoria DavisDirector: Todd Solondz
Brand: Sony
Writer: Todd Solondz
Producer: Dan Partland
Producer: Donna L. Bascom
Producer: Jason Kliot
Producer: Joana Vicente
Producer: Priscilla Guastavino
Producer: Susan A. Stover
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Summary: 3 Stars
this movie like the movie happiness is good but not great. the films are engaging, unique and very stylish. but therein lies the problem. i think Solondz gives us style over substance and shock over reality. he is very good at evoking the darker side of human nature but the characters are flat and the problems and scenarios are poorly developed. nevertheless, he has a vision and a talent for portraying provocative ideas and i'm sure he will develop the insight to bring more subtlety, and depth to his ideas.
Summary of Welcome to the Dollhouse
This acclaimed comedy follows an 11-year-old geek who wants to be popular. Special features: full screen and widescreen versions subtitles: english french spanish talent files and theatrical trailer. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: RWhat is junior high school but a strange, disorienting pastiche of black comedy, tragedy, soap opera, and (most of all) horror movie? Well, that pretty much describes Todd Solondz's astonishingly honest and clear-sighted film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Like Solondz's even more controversial follow-up--the acclaimed and despised Happiness (1998)--Dollhouse unflinchingly looks deep into its characters' souls (and their embarrassing desires, and their floundering sexuality) in ways that can be simultaneously disturbing and liberating, appalling and hilarious. Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is a hapless seventh-grade geek whose cruel and contemptuous schoolmates have nicknamed her (what else?) "Wiener Dog." Everything about Dawn is so awkward--the way she looks, talks, moves--that it's no wonder other kids dump on her. They're most likely so insecure about themselves that they're terrified of the Wiener Dog they know lurks somewhere down inside themselves, too. So, the best social and psychological survival tactic is to distance themselves from Dawn by relentlessly reminding her of her "place" at the bottom of the junior-high pecking order. Solondz's vision is hardly sentimental, and you wouldn't even call it "compassionate," but it is a moral vision: authentic, undiluted, and, in the end, understanding. --Jim Emerson
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