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Welcome to the Dollhouse[Widescreen] - DVD

SKU: 3700463 | Release Date: 8/3/1999

Rating: R for Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Not For Children

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Rating: R for Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Not For Children
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1995
Length: 87 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV/Full Screen
Genre: Dark Comedies
Studio: Columbia Tristar
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1/1.33:1

Synopsis

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 making the effort. If life is tough for Dawn at school, it's hardly any better at home. While her folks dote on her gratingly cute younger sister Missy (Daria Kalinina) and look with pride to her bookish older brother Mark (Matthew Faber), Dawn is either ignored or treated as an annoyance. Dawn has developed a crush on Steve (Eric Mabius), the hunky guitarist Mark has drafted into his rock band (significantly, Mark is less interested in making cool noise or unloading teenage angst than in having another extracurricular activity to put on his college applications); Steve is polite but obviously not interested in her. However, Dawn has attracted the attention of a boy at school -- Brandon (Brendan Sexton), a mean-spirited junior thug whose idea of a good time is threatening Dawn with rape. A painfully accurate account of life in junior high (what Matt Groening called "the lowest pit of hell"), Welcome to the Dollhouse is also very funny, but writer and director Todd Solondz never lets the film's humor dilute the agony of its leading character; anyone who has ever been 12 years old will doubtless laugh at Dawn while uncomfortably recalling the horror of their own preteen years. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Version Details

Sound

Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel/stereo

Languages/Sound

Eng

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV/Full Screen

Subtitle Languages

Eng/Fre/Spa

Additional Features

Digitally remastered audio and video Production notes Interactive menus Language: English (stereo) Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Theatrical trailer Talent and filmographies Scene selections

Chapters

Side #1 -- Widescreen
1. Start [1:49]
2. Dawn Wiener [2:07]
3. Troy [4:58]
4. Trapped by Lolita [1:55]
5. Detention [4:37]
6. "Sweet Candy" [2:04]
7. Dignity [:45]
8. Stranger Danger [2:38]
9. Dawn Meets Steve [5:38]
10. Ginger [1:55]
11. A Love-Struck Hostess [5:15]
12. "Welcome to the Dollhouse" [3:31]
13. 3 PM Warning [2:34]
14. Party Plans [3:25]
15. Love Among the Ruins [4:42]
16. Steve's Photos [3:03]
17. Cookie's Cookie [1:33]
18. "Lost in Your Eyes" [2:43]
19. "Happy Anniversary" [2:01]
20. Looking for Steve [1:52]
21. Tape Review [4:15]
22. A Note for Missy [3:06]
23. Breakfast With Police [2:09]
24. At Brandon's House [5:08]
25. "They Found Her Tutu." [1:48]
26. Sister Search [4:19]
27. Expressing Her Thanks [3:13]
28. "The Hummingbird Anthem" [4:06]
Side #2 -- Full Screen
1. Start [1:49]
2. Dawn Wiener [2:07]
3. Troy [4:58]
4. Trapped by Lolita [1:55]
5. Detention [4:37]
6. "Sweet Candy" [2:04]
7. Dignity [:45]
8. Stranger Danger [2:38]
9. Dawn Meets Steve [5:38]
10. Ginger [1:55]
11. A Love-Struck Hostess [5:15]
12. "Welcome to the Dollhouse" [3:31]
13. 3 PM Warning [2:34]
14. Party Plans [3:25]
15. Love Among the Ruins [4:42]
16. Steve's Photos [3:03]
17. Cookie's Cookie [1:33]
18. "Lost in Your Eyes" [2:43]
19. "Happy Anniversary" [2:01]
20. Looking for Steve [1:52]
21. Tape Review [4:15]
22. A Note for Missy [3:06]
23. Breakfast With Police [2:09]
24. At Brandon's House [5:08]
25. "They Found Her Tutu." [1:48]
26. Sister Search [4:19]
27. Expressing Her Thanks [3:13]
28. "The Hummingbird Anthem" [4:06]

Cast

Bill Buell - Mr. Wiener
Will Lyman - Mr. Edwards
Angela Pietropinto - Mrs. Wiener
Christina Vidal - Cynthia
Rica Martens - Mrs. Grissom
Matthew Faber - Mark Wiener
Victoria Davis - Lolita
Stacey Moseley - Mary Ellen Moriarty
Brendan Sexton, Jr. - Brandon McCarthy
Eric Mabius - Steve Rodgers
Heather Matarazzo - Dawn Wiener
Daria Kalinina - Missy Wiener
Eric H.T. Mabius - Steve Rodgers
Brendan Sexton III - Brandon McCarthy

Crew

Director: Todd Solondz
Producer: Todd Solondz
Screenwriter: Todd Solondz
Associate Producer: Joana Vicente
Production Designer: Susan Block
Casting: Ann Goulder
Cinematographer: Randy Drummond
First Assistant Director: Chad Braden
Set Designer: Avery S. Brandon
Composer (Music Score): Jill Wisoff
Sound/Sound Designer: Alex Wolfe
Cinematographer: Gabor Szitanyi
Costume Designer: Melissa Toth
Co-producer: Ted Skillman
Art Director: Lori Solondz
Editor: Alan Oxman
Co-producer: Dan Partland
Associate Producer: Jason Kliot

Welcome to the Dollhouse: AMG Review
Rebecca Flint Marx , AMG

One of the most honest films ever made about adolescence, Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse is a brutal, caustically hilarious ode to the seventh ring of hell that is the seventh grade. Solondz approaches his material as a survivor: in the character of Dawn Wiener, it is easy to see the director himself, the ostracized geek used as a bottom rung by his peers as they climbed the social ladder. But rather than use his position behind the camera to craft a redemptive tale of a spunky outcast who gets revenge on her tormenters, Solondz is more interested in bleak, mundane reality. Dawn (played to perfection by Heather Matarazzo) doesn't possess the subversive intelligence or creative inclinations that usually endear social misfits to an audience; if you removed her thick glasses, there wouldn't be a beautiful swan hiding underneath, just an awkward girl who can't see. Most tellingly, Dawn doesn't want revenge on her tormenters: she wants to be accepted by them. More than anything else, junior high is about survival. If Dawn can make it to the eighth grade, she's one year closer to escape; and, in the pockmarked scheme of puberty, escape is about all you can hope for. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

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