Movies

July, 1996

Movies about growing pains have reached a new level with Welcome to the Dollhouse (Sony Classics) by writer-producer-director Todd Solondz. Dawn, his 11-year-old heroine, wears glasses, has spaces between her teeth and generally endures the hell of preadolescence in a New Jersey suburb. Dawn's parents clearly prefer her kid sister, Missy, an obnoxious would-be ballerina, while Dawn's schoolmates enjoy humiliating her with accusations of lesbianism, apple-polishing and nerdiness. Movie newcomer H...