Wiener-Dog
Wiener-Dog
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Writer/director Todd Solondz revisits the character of Dawn Wiener from his 1995 breakthrough film Welcome to the Dollhouse, played as an adult by Greta Gerwig, one of several characters whose lives intersect with the titular pooch. The ensemble cast also includes Ellen Burstyn, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy, Danny DeVito, Tracy Letts, and Zosia Mamet.

Todd Solondz--USA--2016--88 mins.

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This Todd Solondz-directed unofficial follow-up to "Welcome to the Dollhouse" follows a dachshund as she goes from one off-kilter owner to another. It's an unofficial sequel to Dollhouse because two of that movie's characters -- Dawn Weiner and Brandon -- are here but now played by Greta Gerwig (who's great) and Kieran Culkin (who's Kieran Culkin) instead of Heather Matarazzo and Brendon Sexton, III, which seems ... odd. But Solondz has done that before (Life During Wartime is a sequel to Happiness with the completely different actors playing the same characters, something I don't particularly care for). Anyway, we follow this hapless pooch as she somehow ends up with al these various headcases from the sickly little French-American boy, Remy to Dawn Weiner to Brandon's brother with Down syndrome Tommy and his wife (also with Down syndrome), to a feckless, desperate film professor (a subdued Danny DeVito) to finally, an aging, bitter Ellen Burstyn who spends her days regretting everything and hating life in the meantime. Oddly, we never learn how the little dog comes to find these people, which I think is a vital linchpin, storytelling-wise; she just shows up in different homes. Be warned: The ending is BLEAK. And I certainly did not care for that. All the performances where fine, and I think linking a lot of different characters via dog ownership is clever but it was almost too much jammed into too little time to tell these wacky stories. C

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