Episode 9

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17th Jun 2020

Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996 Sundance Award Winner)

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features the Grand Jury Prize winner from the Sundance Film Festival, Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse. Written and directed by Todd Solondz and starring Heather Matarazzo, Brendan Sexton III, Eric Mabius, Matthew Faber, Angela Pietropinto and Bill Buell, Welcome to the Dollhouse went on to be nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards, with one win.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/welcome-to-the-dollhouse-1996), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/05/31/welcome-dollhouse/), and David Ansen in Newsweek (https://www.newsweek.com/agony-adolescence-178568).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring the Best Picture Oscar winner, Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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