WELOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

Name: WELOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
Item: WELOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
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Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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(Pa, Ro, LLL, VV, S, NN, D, M) Pagan worldview stressing popularity and being good-looking as ultimate values with some adolescent romantic elements; 49 obscenities, 2 profanities & lots of name-calling (e.g. lesbos , fag, fairy, ugly, dog-face & din-head); moderate action violence showing boys punching a boy in school hallway, girl is verbally threatened, boys throwing paper spitballs at girl, girl hits teacher in the eye with spitball, boy twice threatens to rape girl & hold her at knife point, girl saws off Barbie doll’s head, girl destroys video tape with hammer & holds hammer over sleeping sister’s head, & mean bullying occurring throughout movie; plenty of sexual talk & references, 2 kissing scenes involving young boy & girl, young boys making rude gestures, sexual content in a young girl’s letter, & implied sexual situation; 1 scene of girl partially nude in underwear & boy with shirt open; drug smoking & drug dealing in school; and, miscellaneous immorality including stealing, lying, running away from home, showing disrespect for parents, kidnapping, dysfunctional family life with blatant favoritism, cheating during test, & rape threats

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WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE is the story of the awkward trials of seventh-grader Dawn Wiener, who is neither pretty nor popular. Dressed in true geek-style with thick glasses, Dawn is relentlessly belittled, while her young tutu-clad sister, Missy, is the family favorite. Dawn is called names and jeered by everyone. She becomes infatuated with the singer in her brother’s band, seeing him as her prince who will take her away from her torments, yet she is rejected. Romance of sorts finds her in the form of a troubled classmate who makes “dates” with her under the guise of rape threats. Everything slowly builds for Dawn, who finally takes revenge on her younger sister which results in a kidnapping. The family finds her sister, and Dawn finds life unchanged.
This movie won the Grand Prize at this year’s Sundance Movie Festival. Well-crafted and insightful the movie offers a precise look at the difficult years of puberty. Despite its comic-drama, however, the movie is relentlessly mean-spirited. The bullyings, name-callings and underlying sense of violence carry an edge of cruel desperation. Without the crucial network of wise adults to lead the way, the young in this movie resort to drugs, stealing, cheating, lying, running away from home, and foul language. WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE shows us empty lives guided by pagan values.