Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
AKA: –
Directed by: Todd Solondz
Starring: Heather Matarazzo (Dawn), Daria Kalinina (Missy), Matthew Faber (Mark), Brendan Sexton III (Brandon), Eric Mabius (Steve)
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 01:31:31
Genres: Teensploitation, Misery, Siblings-Family, Old-Young
Plot – Spoilers:
Dawn is a 12 year-old, desperate for acceptance. At school she’s regularly picked on, everyone thinks she’s fugly, her mother dotes on her pretty little sister Missy and her brother and Dad barely acknowledge her existence. Though everyone (apart from a boy whom other kids call a faggot) are uniformly uninterested in her, it’s Missy whom Dawn considers direct competition and loathes from the gut.
Dawn is pathetic and obedient at school, while a rebel at home. On the one hand, she stubbornly fights the urge to give in to her mother’s demands in exchange for a piece of dessert, and on the other, she meekly accepts lead bully Brandon’s orders to come on time for a rape session. It’s this dichotomy in Dawn, coupled with her resentment towards Missy that makes Welcome to the Dollhouse a tragicomic masterpiece.
Favorite Scene:
Dawn awkwardly enjoying her crush Steve performing the title track.
Who tf made this bs?
Fine, don’t change “desert” or “come ‘on’ time” 😉
You’re incumbent for your errata, even though the stolid tenebrous viewers can’t distinguish your perfunctory indiscretions anyway.
A piece of dessert.
Come one time.
Nobody cares… They’re not particularly relucent anyway.
Dessert, yes, was a mistake.
The other was meant that way.
Please allow me time to wake up and get around to checking the site 🙂
People are pedantic. Have a nice cup of coffee and good morning to you, though it’s eventide here 🙂
Admin, does Dawn meekly accept Brandon’s orders to come “one” time or “on” time?
Admin, fix your fucking “dessert”.
@Admin: ‘A piece of dessert’ Gary’s bitching and honestly, I don’t blame him. There are enough lowbrow uncultured boors, lamentably they don’t know any better so best not pioneer their insolency.
Arigatō, torafu de buta 😉
Maybe you could use a bit less of your japanese to help. Not once have I understood what you are trying to say. I assume it comes from some sub-culture that has passed me by (most do). Not that my language skill has ever gone beyond ordering beer.
I kudize your enquiry. I won’t disseminate in Japanese any further. I apologise for my passivity muffles, there was no effrontery intended whatsoever.
Aussie Muriel (Toni Collette)
‘A piece of dessert’
I think you meant…
Now now Gary, don’t be anally retentive. Incorporate an iota of complaisance and Admin will tend to your brusque reparation 😀
Kekkyokunotokoro, karera wa Amerika no kotondesu!
Ugh. Corrected, thanks.
Pfft.
Welcome.
Don’t be tardy next time.
After all, it’s your fucking devoir…
my first viewing of this movie, never saw childhood so honestly on screen before
one of my favorite movies!
I love this movie. It’s not necessarily disturbing, but some of it is really funny. Has been a favorite of mine for decades.
I hope your pitbull tears your kids apart, nice doggy.
If she finally snapped and went on a killing spree I wouldn’t be mad at it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ SOMETHING’S gotta give.
But she takes the unfairness, hypocracy and low cunning
and takes one more step forward despite coming to terms
with how much it sucks. She makes good decisions…I think
when i grew up i was treated like Dawn. everyone shit on me and in me. i grew up to be a drug addicted whore. i roam around, town to town type stuff. i make good money and i buy good drugs. the world still shits on me and in me. at least now i get paid for it.
I feel sorry for you, I hope life gives you a break. Best Wishes to you, your story is so sad.
Kind of an interesting change of pace. I appreciate EUM putting variety on this site. A little something for everyone.
Dawn is brilliant and very relatebale. Such a wholesome movie at times but boy does it get dark too. Great pick, eum
Relatable.
Ricky, get back inside your mother’s cunt, and don’t come back until you’re 14.
why is this movie so addicting to watch… i mean its depressing af but its one of my favourites…
because its relatable
It’s ‘addictive” not fucking ‘addicting’.
Fun Fact: this film was originally slated to be called ‘Faggots & Retards’, but was ultimately scrapped due to lack of marketability!
I prefer his later works.. (from Palindromes on)
Buddhism was understood as antinatalism by Jack Kerouac. The Marcionites believed that the visible world is an evil creation of a crude, cruel, jealous, angry demiurge, Yahweh.
But nonetheless, I don’t think you understand misanthropy at all dickhead 😉
I have had a crush on the woman who played dawn since I was 12. I remember watching this on vhs and getting my first real boner haha
Lmfao she’s butt ugly ..
She also starred in ”Hostel 2” and ended up tied up and suspended above a bathtub and being cut open so her blood flowed onto a woman below, a scene reminiscent from the film ”Bathory”, also on this site.
Ngl, she kinda reminds me of Marisa Tomei, now she’s quite an attractive actress imo 😉
You’re either blind or would fuck anything that woman is so fugly. She got the role for a reason
This is great, but kinda of dull.
Our main protagonist, Dawn, is kinda of a pituful/lamentable dork (but I still have sympathy for her). Everyone else is wretched : her family is aloof/distant at best, detestable at worst (talking about her mom and Missy), her friend is ,,,, meh, not memorable and her relation w/ Brandon is weird.
Also, the pace is slow at time.
Thought, I really like the”I/We love you, Dawn” scene near the end.
It’s not a movie I’ll recommend, but if you like “Happiness” (1998), give it a shot !!
>:^]
this is what Tedd Solondz’s movies are about – bleak everyday characters that are meant to test your empathy 😉
I dont know his movies, this my first but im checking out the rest from here given that description
Shit movie. Waste my time
go cry about it
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐….I like this movie so much. It’s unusual.
me too… i dont know why im obssessed with this movie.. ive watched it like 3 times
you watched on your own
then go watch something else you big baby