Welcome to the Dollhouse

Debut: 1995
Director: Todd Solandz
Starring: Heather Matarazzo, Eric Mabius

This dark comedy has gone down in history as an eternal favorite of mine. Remember how mean kids were in junior high for no real reason? Remember how there was that person that even losers wouldn't hang out with? So is the life of Dawn Wiener (pronounced exactly as you think...).

Dollhouse is all about making you laugh at things that are completely inappropriate, and in no way makes you feel bad for this girl who has the most hellish life imaginable. Each character is memorable, from Ralphy ("You think you're hot shit but you're really just cold diarrhea") to Dawn's brother Mark ("Of course I don't think about girls. I want to get into a good school") to her mother ("She has no friends... Case closed. She's a loner.") You want so badly to feel bad for "Wienerdog" but don't because you know there was someone like that in your school.

The darkness of the comedy comes back to the fact there is no real story, no real climax, no real point to showing this girl's awful life. Try it out, you will surely love it, unless you were that person in junior high.