Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

Directed by

Todd Solondz

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 506 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An unpopular middle school girl named Dawn tries desperately to get her cruel classmates and neglectful family to respect her. She goes to awkward and extreme lengths that often make things worse.

cringe-inducingdarkly comicuncomfortableawkwardvulnerablelonelybleaksatirical

What happens

Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 American coming-of-age black comedy film written, produced, and directed by Todd Solondz. An independent film, it won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and launched the careers of Solondz and Heather Matarazzo. The story follows the unpopular middle schooler Dawn as she goes to extreme lengths trying to earn the respect of her vicious fellow students and her uninterested family. Dawn reappears in two of Solondz's other films, Palindromes (2004) and Wiener-Dog (2016), but those films have alternate timelines and Dawn encounters two different fates in those two films. Dawn's brother and father also appear in the former in addition to Life During Wartime (2009). The film's working title was Faggots and Retards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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