Christina Reviews *Welcome to the Dollhouse*

           Dawn Wiener is the nerdy 12 year old you know you were in sixth grade, only a helluva lot nerdier.  She’s stuck in the middle, between a brainy older brother and a pretty princess of a little sister.  Her parents dote on her little sister Missy.  Her brother tolerates her to a degree, but he’s more interested in his band and the new lead singer---a bad boy senior who has slept with just about everything that moves, including girls Dawn’s own age.

          Dawn falls in love with the bad boy senior, but he rejects her as most people do.  All her classmates call her weiner dog.  The girls call her a lesbian.  Only the bully in her class who threatens to rape her after school seems to be the least bit interested in her.

          This is a scary movie because it hits close to home.  I've always felt awkward, and when I was eleven, everyone called me the “Spandex Queen”. 

         Todd Solondz is great at showing the twisted secret life of suburban families.  There should be a TV show called “The Secret Lives of Todd Solondz Teenagers.”  It wouldn’t be a hit because he attracts a certain kind of viewer, but it would be real.