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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Unlike her tormenters, Dawn pays dearly the few times she tries to fight back, as when she gets in trouble with the principal for hitting a teacher with a spitball meant for Brandon. Her odious mother actually tells her that she has no right to fight back.
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* NotSoDifferent: Dawn picks on Missy much as her bullies pick on her.
**Even worse is the way she turns on her only real friend, Ralphie.
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''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' is a 1995 film by Todd Solondz. It stars HeatherMatarazzo in her breakout role, as well as being Solondz's breakout movie as a director.
Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is an unpopular, unattractive seventh grader whose family treats her as just as much of an outcast. She has great difficulty making friends and is almost always the target of cruel and isolating behavior from her peers. At home, she is the least favorite of the three Wiener children, a fact that is often exploited by her younger tutu-wearing sister Missy (the apple of their parents' eye) in order to get her in trouble. Dawn goes through life in a quiet and awkward state of mind.
One day, Dawn's older brother Mark brings over a high school senior named Steve Rodgers to tutor him in exchange for Steve playing in Mark's band. Upon meeting, Dawn becomes infatuated with the older boy and develops a crush on him. Things get even more complicated for her as one of her classmates Brandon antagonizes her more and more, mostly because he has feelings for her.
Not to be confused with the TV series ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.
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!!This film provide examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be the way Dawn sprained her finger.
* AdultsAreUseless
* AlphaBitch: Lolita at school, Missy at home.
* BareYourMidriff: The outfit Dawn wears at her parents' anniversary party.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Brandon a retard.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Missy.
* BlackComedy
* BlackComedyRape: Brandon arranges ahead of time that he was going to rape Dawn and they reschedule when it doesn't work out the first time. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually go through with it]].
* ButtMonkey: Dawn is a rather dark, humorous example. Extreme is not strong enough a word.
* CrapsackWorld
* DawsonCasting: 24 Year old Eric Mabius (Steve Rodgers) is in high school. Four years later he was still in high school for ''CruelIntentions''.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: In the end, nothing at all has improved for Dawn, and she's in the exact same miserable state as before.]]
** Made even worse in the semi-sequel ''Palindromes.''
* DreadfulMusician: Mark and his band.
* EatingLunchAlone: Dawn is rejected from every table in the school cafeteria, the scene to purely encapsulate the mood of the movie it was used in the trailer as well.
* ExtremeDoormat: Dawn couldn't stand up for herself.
* HandsomeLech: Steve.
* ImagineSpot: Used when Dawn goes to New York [[spoiler:after her sister is kidnapped. She imagines finding Missy and her life instantly improving.]]
* JerkAss: Most of the characters.
* KidsAreCruel / TeensAreMonsters: Dawn's classmates. And, of course, Missy.
* JuniorHigh
* LoveHurts
* LoveTriangle: Brandon likes Dawn. Dawn kind of likes him, but is completely infatuated with Steve.
* LovingBully: Brandon torments Dawn because he likes her.
* ManipulativeBitch: Missy.
* MeaningfulName: the AlphaBitch character's name is ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Dawn.
* ParentalFavoritism: Dawn's parents, especially her mother, adore Missy and prefer her to the other two kids.
* PrecociousCrush: Dawn was crushing hard on Steve, despite being much older than her.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Despite all her trials and tribulations, Dawns' situation has not improved by the end of the movie. She's just as miserable as she was before.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: When you take the sequel into account. [[spoiler:Dawn's life did not improve once she finally grew up and got out of the hellish neighborhood. She gained weight, got pregnant, and committed suicide.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Dawn again.
* SpoiledBrat: Missy yet again.
* StepfordSuburbia
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Dawn]] in the movie's loose sequel ''Palindromes''.
** Maybe now, they will leave you alone.
* TedBaxter: Steve.
* TwoDecadesBehind: In the Still The Eighties sense.
* TheUnFavorite: Dawn and, at least in relation to Missy, her brother Mark.
* UnfortunateImplications: In universe, Dawn and Ralphy's club "The Special People Club." Pointed out that it's a club "for retards."
* YoungestChildWins: Missy.
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''Welcome to the Dollhouse'' is a 1995 film by Todd Solondz. It stars HeatherMatarazzo in her breakout role, as well as being Solondz's breakout movie as a director.
Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is an unpopular, unattractive seventh grader whose family treats her as just as much of an outcast. She has great difficulty making friends and is almost always the target of cruel and isolating behavior from her peers. At home, she is the least favorite of the three Wiener children, a fact that is often exploited by her younger tutu-wearing sister Missy (the apple of their parents' eye) in order to get her in trouble. Dawn goes through life in a quiet and awkward state of mind.
One day, Dawn's older brother Mark brings over a high school senior named Steve Rodgers to tutor him in exchange for Steve playing in Mark's band. Upon meeting, Dawn becomes infatuated with the older boy and develops a crush on him. Things get even more complicated for her as one of her classmates Brandon antagonizes her more and more, mostly because he has feelings for her.
Not to be confused with the TV series ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.
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!!This film provide examples of:
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied to be the way Dawn sprained her finger.
* AdultsAreUseless
* AlphaBitch: Lolita at school, Missy at home.
* BareYourMidriff: The outfit Dawn wears at her parents' anniversary party.
* BerserkButton: Don't call Brandon a retard.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Missy.
* BlackComedy
* BlackComedyRape: Brandon arranges ahead of time that he was going to rape Dawn and they reschedule when it doesn't work out the first time. [[spoiler:He doesn't actually go through with it]].
* ButtMonkey: Dawn is a rather dark, humorous example. Extreme is not strong enough a word.
* CrapsackWorld
* DawsonCasting: 24 Year old Eric Mabius (Steve Rodgers) is in high school. Four years later he was still in high school for ''CruelIntentions''.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: In the end, nothing at all has improved for Dawn, and she's in the exact same miserable state as before.]]
** Made even worse in the semi-sequel ''Palindromes.''
* DreadfulMusician: Mark and his band.
* EatingLunchAlone: Dawn is rejected from every table in the school cafeteria, the scene to purely encapsulate the mood of the movie it was used in the trailer as well.
* ExtremeDoormat: Dawn couldn't stand up for herself.
* HandsomeLech: Steve.
* ImagineSpot: Used when Dawn goes to New York [[spoiler:after her sister is kidnapped. She imagines finding Missy and her life instantly improving.]]
* JerkAss: Most of the characters.
* KidsAreCruel / TeensAreMonsters: Dawn's classmates. And, of course, Missy.
* JuniorHigh
* LoveHurts
* LoveTriangle: Brandon likes Dawn. Dawn kind of likes him, but is completely infatuated with Steve.
* LovingBully: Brandon torments Dawn because he likes her.
* ManipulativeBitch: Missy.
* MeaningfulName: the AlphaBitch character's name is ''Literature/{{Lolita}}''.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Dawn.
* ParentalFavoritism: Dawn's parents, especially her mother, adore Missy and prefer her to the other two kids.
* PrecociousCrush: Dawn was crushing hard on Steve, despite being much older than her.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:Despite all her trials and tribulations, Dawns' situation has not improved by the end of the movie. She's just as miserable as she was before.]]
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: When you take the sequel into account. [[spoiler:Dawn's life did not improve once she finally grew up and got out of the hellish neighborhood. She gained weight, got pregnant, and committed suicide.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Dawn again.
* SpoiledBrat: Missy yet again.
* StepfordSuburbia
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Dawn]] in the movie's loose sequel ''Palindromes''.
** Maybe now, they will leave you alone.
* TedBaxter: Steve.
* TwoDecadesBehind: In the Still The Eighties sense.
* TheUnFavorite: Dawn and, at least in relation to Missy, her brother Mark.
* UnfortunateImplications: In universe, Dawn and Ralphy's club "The Special People Club." Pointed out that it's a club "for retards."
* YoungestChildWins: Missy.
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