Welcome to the Dollhouse Page #3

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
1,645 Views


- Yeah.

- You in junior high?

- Yeah.

- Ben Frank?

- Yeah.

You like it?

Yeah, Ben Frank's pretty bad.

- You went there too?

- Oh, yeah.

- I was almost expelled.

- Really?

Why?

- I hated it.

- Oh, God. Me too.

Well, don't worry.

It's only three years.

Steve--

Out.

So did you get started

on the chapter?

It's real important to

focus on it if you want--

"Dear Mark, I thought long and hard...

over what we discussed at camp

and talked about it with my mother.

She agrees with me: Sex is

an important thing to experiment with...

before marriage, but only if there is

a serious commitment on both ends.

This is my third letter

to you, and I'm going to assume...

that you do not want

to continue our relationship...

if I do not hear back

from you within ten days.

Sincerely,

Your (ex-?) girlfriend...

Naomi Hayes-Blatt.

P.S. I'm getting hooked up

to E-mail for my birthday.

I'll let you know my address

as soon as it happens. "

Yeah?

- What are you doing?

- Computer Science.

Is Steve good

at Computer Science?

He's fair. He's definitely

in the bottom quarter of the class...

but he doesn't fail.

- Why do you think that is?

- Simple:

Because he's lazy.

All he thinks about is girls.

Do you think about girls?

Are you kidding?

I want to get into a good school.

My future's, like, important.

Besides, none of the girls at school

are that pretty anyway.

What about Maria Esposito?

Gross.

- Steve went out with her once.

- Yeah, well, Steve is horny.

Really?

- How horny?

- He'd go out with anyone...

as long as it was a girl

and willing.

Willing to do what exactly?

Go all the way.

You mean, have intercourse?

Duh !

Why? Are you in love

with him or something?

But, Mark, when you say

he'd go out with any girl...

as long as they're willing

to go all the way...

does that mean they

have to also be pretty?

You know Tammy Steinfeld,

from car pool?

- Yeah.

- Do you think she's pretty?

Not that pretty really.

Dawn, she's a dog,

and he did it with her.

Has he ever done it with anyone

younger than high school?

- You know Ginger Friedman?

- She used to be in my gym class.

Well, why not

ask her about Steve?

Be back in a second.

Don't move.

um, Ginger?

Can I talk to you for a second?

It's about Steve Rodgers.

We gotta talk.

So what do you know about me and Steve?

First, tell me who told you I knew him.

- My brother.

- Who's your brother?

- Mark Wiener.

- Him? He's king of the nerds.

I know, but he told me you used

to go out with Steve. Is it true?

We fingerfucked.

Once, last spring.

That's it.

It's all over now.

What else?

Well, I was wondering

if I might have a chance...

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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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