Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Not all girls want to play with dolls.

199688 min7.1 / 10

A darkly comic coming-of-age portrait of a misfit girl navigating suburban cruelty and parental neglect with sardonic detachment.

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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