Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

7.3	Listal rating
7.3	IMDB rating

Directed by

Todd Solondz

Starring (View all)

Dawn Wiener

Lolita

Cynthia

Siri Howard

Chrissy

Brendan Sexton III

Brandon McCarthy

Telly Pontidis

Jed

Herbie Duarte

Lance

Written by

Todd Solondz

(written by)

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3 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 4 7:57

youngbloods

2 votes

First of all, I didn't really have high hopes for this film, as it's a 'coming of age' film, and I can not stand them types of films, they're usually boring, typical and really stupid. And so I thought this film had a good chance of being the same. In a way I was wrong. It was watchable. I can't say I was fond of the romance parts, but after that was out of the way...it was O.K, I was getting into... read more

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3 years, 9 months ago at Sep 11 2:16

The Mighty Celestial

2 votes

With the realism of the coming of age teen life themes that the film "Kids" started, Dollhouse seems to continue. This time, the plot is fitted into a "more linear" storyline, with the intent of structuring the movie in an order that makes it more of a digestable film for general audiences, despite some of its sharp edges.
This is a hard-nosed depiction of those who are quietly & easil... read more

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Insightful look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with un-attentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities.

Release date : 24 May 1996
UPC: 043396825697

Black Comedy (8), 1990s (7), Drama (6), Bullying (5), Comedy (5), Coming Of Age (5), Outsider (3), Independent Film (3), Young Girl (3), Usa (3), Dysfunctional Family (3), Missing Child (2), Brother Sister Relationship (2), Suburb (2), Teacher Crush (2), Barbie (2), Videotape (2), (2), Threat (2), Teen Drug Use (2)

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Ɛdita voted for a review of Welcome to the Dollhouse 3 months, 1 week ago

“First of all, I didn't really have high hopes for this film, as it's a 'coming of age' film, and I can not stand them types of films, they're usually ”

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" I haven't seen this movie in a long time, but from what I remember, the unfortunately named Dawn Weiner had a pretty s**t life too. "

Toxic Alien voted for a review of Welcome to the Dollhouse 3 months, 2 weeks ago

“First of all, I didn't really have high hopes for this film, as it's a 'coming of age' film, and I can not stand them types of films, they're usually ”

youngbloods posted a review 3 months, 2 weeks ago

“First of all, I didn't really have high hopes for this film, as it's a 'coming of age' film, and I can not stand them types of films, they're usually boring, typical and really stupid. And so I thought this film had a good chance of being the same. In a way I was wrong. It was watchable. I can't say I was fond of the romance parts, but after that was out of the way...it was O.K, I was getting into it. Defiantly not a bad film whatsoever.

This film follows a really unattractive young girl, played by Heather Matarazzo who is rather unattractive in real life, it's not like that TV show, 'Ugly Betty' because once you get all that crap of America Ferrera's face, she's actually not at all ugly. But this was a different case, Matarazzo is rather ugly, and so the story and the film was v” read more