Welcome to the Dollhouse Page #2

Synopsis: Seventh-grade is no fun. Especially for Dawn Weiner when everyone at school calls you 'Dog-Face' or 'Wiener-Dog.' Not to mention if your older brother is 'King of the Nerds' and your younger sister is a cutesy ballerina who gets you in trouble but is your parents' favorite. And that's just the beginning--her life seems to be falling apart when she faces rejection from the older guy in her brother's band that she has a crush on, her parents want to tear down her 'Special People's Club' clubhouse, and her sister is abducted....
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Todd Solondz
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  4 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
1995
88 min
1,652 Views


but it don't worry me

Won't you give me

some sweet candy

Well, Dawn is very musical.

Yeah. No, I know.

No, she's going.

I told her

she'll have a fabulous time.

What kid doesn't want

to go to Disney World?

Right.

- Yes.

- Let's get a little wild

Let's get a little crazy

Well, bump it up, sugar

Let me in

You see, I know

you're Mama 's pearl

You're a pearl

from the ocean of tears

I'm gonna steal that pearl

when she don't see

Won't you give me some

sweet candy

Gonna take candy

from a baby

Sweet candy from a baby

"Dignity.

Dignity is an important quality

everyone should have.

- Louder.

- That way, you will never grade grub.

- Grade grubbing is bad...

- I said, "Louder"!

because it means you're asking

for a grade you shouldn't get.

Because if you got it, it wouldn't be

fair to everyone who didn't grade grub.

We can't hear you!

It doesn't matter whether

you're a girl or a boy...

man or a child,

rich or poor, fat or thin.

You should never be

a grade grubber.

Therefore, dignity is a good quality

everyone should have."

Thank you.

I am here

to talk to you today...

about the dangers

of talking to strangers.

For l, Mary Ellen Moriarty...

once talked to strangers...

and that is how I became the innocent

victim of a brutal kidnapping.

Almost one year ago,

I was a carefree teenager...

memorizing my lines for Hello, Dolly--

I was supposed to play Dolly--

when one day...

a day that I will

never forget--

I was walking home

from rehearsal.

I'd missed my car pool.

And I was waiting at the street corner

for the light to change.

All of a sudden a dark car

pulled up beside me...

and a big man

stepped out.

He was older...

and good looking.

And, um--

And he had a tattoo

on his chest.

And then the next thing

I know, he, um--

Students, I'm telling you

this story--

Now what exactly

did you do, Dawn?

- I shot a spitball.

- Speak up. I can't hear you.

I shot a spitball.

- You shot a what?

- She shot a spitball.

- A teacher was almost blinded.

- I was fighting back.

Whoever told you

to fight back?

Dawn, are you having

social problems?

Yes. She's got no friends.

- I've got friends.

- Who?

Ralphy.

Case closed.

She's a loner.

Dawn, let me put it to you straight.

We're not here to get you.

But you've got to understand,

you're in junior high now.

This goes in the computer

on your record.

Couple of years, this kind of incident

goes on your college transcript.

Any questions?

Were you playing

with my dolls?

How's it going?

How come you got here

so late?

I don't know.

Am I late?

Well, never mind.

Come on in.

-Is that your Computer Science notebook?

-What?

Yeah.

- Are you Mark's sister?

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Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz (born October 15, 1959) is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia," a reflection of his own background in New Jersey.[1] His work includes Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2004), Life During Wartime (2009), and Dark Horse (2012). more…

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