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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996)
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What 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...
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Welcome to the Dollhouse Movie Review by Jarrod  (2/28/2008) |
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'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is a disturbing, painfully honest look at the life of a wholly unattractive girl named Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), tormented at school by her mean-spirited peers, and ignored at home by her parents in favor of her younger sister, Missy, who is absolutely perfect in every possible way. Dawn...
(complete Welcome to the Dollhouse review by Jarrod)
| Welcome to the Dollhouse Movie Review by Zara (5/11/2007) |
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There was buzz about this movie on the back pages of entertainment magazines for weeks before it was released anywhere remotely close to where I was living. I needed to drive to Santa Barbara, about a half hour away from where I lived at the time in order to see it in an old art house theater than still had balcony...
(complete Welcome to the Dollhouse review by Zara)
| Welcome to the Dollhouse Movie Review by Derek (7/10/2006) |
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it was all appropriate timing as far as the first time i saw this. i was through the hell of my last year in "middle school" (technically it was "intermediate" since it was only 7th and 8th) and i particularly when through a painful and confusing situation to boot. my younger brother was sick and my mom decided to rent...
(complete Welcome to the Dollhouse review by Derek)
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