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Twelve-year-old Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is perhaps the most put-upon adolescent in film history in Todd Solondz's bitterly hilarious black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse. Dawn is bright but awkward, both physically and socially, and is appallingly unpopular among her peers, to whom she's better known as "Wienerdog." Possessing little charm or grace and perhaps the most misguided fashion sense of her generation, Dawn is not an easy girl to like and practically no one seems interested in
Sep 10, 1995 Wide
Aug 3, 1999
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (59) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (5)
One of the highlights of the 1995 Toronto Festival, Solondz's second film is a stark, often funny, always poignant comedy about suburban mores, centering on a misfit Jewish girl tormented by her family and classmates.
At 87 minutes, Dollhouse is a near-perfect morsel. If nothing else, it informs older folk that school principals still threaten to record bad behavior in one's 'personal record' -- only now, computers facilitate the process.
A dark look at adolescence; not for kids.
Welcome to the Dollhouse puts an ugly duckling through her paces.
quirky and great
At its best it's like the funniest yet bleakest comic book Dan Clowes never drew.
Todd Solondz's only good movie.
hilariously provocative and almost too real
Still Solondz's one and only great film!
Matarazzo tem forte presença em cena, mas o filme não sai do lugar-comum.
Okay, now after watching this and Let the Right One In I look upon middle school life completely differently. I can't watch another kid's movie without thinking some terrible bullying involving knives or something is going to come soon. I have become desensitized to juvenile violence, I think.Heather Matarazzo is so
December 30, 2008Super Reviewer
Welcome To The Dollhouse has to be one of the most important films in history solely due to the fact that it shows what an unpopular, rather ugly school age girl goes threw. Complete with torment, dark sarcasm in the class room, and parents that do not really care. Now, what makes this film unique is that it is the
December 12, 2010Super Reviewer
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