25 August 2009

Teenage Angst

Three films about angst-ridden adolescents:

Welcome to the Dollhouse follows Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward and unpopular 11-year-old nicknamed "Wienerdog" by her classmates, who is tormented by bully Brandon McCarthy (Brendan Sexton III) at school and overshadowed by her nerdy college-bound brother Mark (Matthew Faber) and cute ballerina sister Missy (Daria Kalinina) at home.

Set in the small Swedish town of Åmål, Show Me Love (aka Fucking Åmål) tells the story of depressed teenager Agnes Ahlberg (Rebecka Liljeberg), an outsider with very few friends who has a crush on her classmate Elin Olsson (Alexandra Dahlström), who is bored with her small-town life and feels Åmål is so behind the times that something is out before it even gets there.

Adapted from the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides follows Cecilia (Hanna Hall), Lux (Kirsten Dunst), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Mary (A.J. Cook) and Therese Lisbon (Leslie Hayman), five teenage sisters whose story is told through the eyes of the neighbourhood boys who worship them, and watch as their lives disappear following the suicide of the youngest sister Cecilia.

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