Welcome to the Dollhouse: Presented by See It On 16mm
- Wed, Jul 29
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Todd Solondz Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1996
Starring: Brendan Sexton III, Daria Kalinina, Eric Mabius, Heather Matarazzo, Matthew Faber
Not all girls want to play with dolls.Not all girls want to play with dolls.
See It On 16mm is back at The Frida with Todd Solondz’s painfully funny coming-of-age comedy-drama Welcome to the Dollhouse.
Seventh-grader Dawn Wiener occupies an unenviable place in the social hierarchy: ignored at home, ridiculed at school, and perpetually caught between childhood and adolescence. As she stumbles through the everyday cruelties of suburban life, Dawn struggles to find connection in a world that seems determined to leave her behind.
A mix of cringe-inducing humor and heartbreaking honesty, Welcome to the Dollhouse captures the awkwardness of adolescence more vividly than almost any film before or since. Writer-director Todd Solondz refuses to sentimentalize growing up, finding comedy in life’s most uncomfortable moments.