Not all girls want to play with dolls.
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.
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Contemporary, prestige, spare and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20247/10
Well if you were ever in doubt about the fallacies of the "American dream" then you need look no further than the life of the young and rather unfortunately named "Dawn Wiener" (Heather Matarazzo). Her life with her geeky brother "Mark" (Matthew Faber) is comfortable enough, but her parents aren't really that interested in her and she is bullied at school by "Brandon" (Brendan Sexton). Her brother has a garage band and it's fronted by the dashing "Steve" (Eric Mabius) in whom she has an almighty crush. Of course she is too young to realise that were he to reciprocate in any way he'd be sent to jail! As so often happens with those who are picked on, she starts to pick on someone else - her little sister "Missy" (Daria Kalinina) and this earns her the annoyance of her family. Feeling adrift and rather abandoned, she begins to seek a bit of solace with her tormentor whilst never quite giving up on her older, would-be, beau - but what can come of any of this? Matarazzo does well here, offering us a gently honest interpretation of a child who is not unloved, just unnoticed. She presents us with a vulnerable character whom you would expect to spend her entire life overlooked, living in t
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Cast
- Heather MatarazzoDawn Wiener
- Brendan Sexton IIIBrandon McCarthy
- Eric MabiusSteve Rodgers
- Matthew FaberMark Wiener
- Daria KalininaMissy Wiener
- Angela PietropintoMrs. Weiner
- Bill BuellMr. Wiener
- Will LymanMr. Edwards
- Rica MartensMrs. Grissom
- Stacey MoseleyMary Ellen Moriarty
Crew
- Todd SolondzDirector
- Todd SolondzScreenplay
- Randy DrummondDirector of Photography
- Jill WisoffOriginal Music Composer
- Alan OxmanEditor
- Todd SolondzProducer
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