Released 1995
Stars Heather Matarazzo, Matthew Faber, Brendan Sexton III, Angela Pietropinto
Directed by Todd Solondz

"Welcome to the Dollhouse'' remembers with brutal and unforgiving accuracy the hell of junior high
school. Many movies reconstruct those years as a sort of adolescent paradise; it's a shock, watching this
film, to remember how cruel kids can be to one another, and how deeply the wounds cut. It  stars Heather Matarazzo in a dead-on performance as Dawn Wiener, an unpopular seventh-grader whose glasses are wrong, whose hair is wrong, whose complexion is wrong, whose clothes are wrong, and who is as gawky and geeky as it is humanly possible to be. Scene after scene, "Welcome to the Dollhouse'' piles on its details, re-creating the acute daily misery of being an unpopular adolescent and remembering, too, how resilient a girl like Dawn can be--how self-absorbed, how hopeful, how philosophical, how enduring. Dawn's revenge, we hope, is that someday she will be rich, famous and admired, while the snotty little cheerleaders who persecuted her will have been sucked into the primeval slime of the miserable lives they deserve.

Summary by Roger Ebert