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Release Date: 2005

Cast: Emani Sledge, Bill Buell, Shayna Levine, Valerie Shusterov, Hannah Freiman, Richard Masur, Matthew Faber, Debra Monk, Danton Stone, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hillary B. Smith, Rachel Corr ...MORE

Cast: Emani Sledge, Bill Buell, Shayna Levine, Valerie Shusterov, Hannah Freiman, Richard Masur, Matthew Faber, Debra Monk, Danton Stone, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hillary B. Smith, Rachel Corr, Sharon Wilkins, Will Denton, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ellen Barkin, Angela Pietropinto ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Indie, Experimental film, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Satire, Coming of age, Black comedy, Avant-garde, Adventure

Palindromes is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz and a sequel to Solondz's 1995 film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. In the same year it was released, Palindromes was nominated for a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. The protagonist, a 13-year-old girl named Aviva, is played by ten different actors (of different ages, races, and genders) during the course of the film. Palindromes also features an array of secondary characters. The names of the characters Aviva, Bob, and Otto are all palindromes. The film opens with a funeral for a young woman;... MORE

Palindromes is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz and a sequel to Solondz's 1995 film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. In the same year it was released, Palindromes was nominated for a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. The protagonist, a 13-year-old girl named Aviva, is played by ten different actors (of different ages, races, and genders) during the course of the film. Palindromes also features an array of secondary characters. The names of the characters Aviva, Bob, and Otto are all palindromes. The film opens with a funeral for a young woman; the deceased is Dawn Wiener, the protagonist from Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, who went to college, gained a lot of weight, became pregnant, and committed suicide. Her brother Mark (Matthew Faber, reprising his role) reads the eulogy while Dawn's tearful parents (Angela Pietropinto and Bill Buell) sit in the audience. Aviva is Dawn's cousin who desires to have a child. She has sex with Judah (Robert Agri), a family friend, and becomes pregnant. Aviva's parents are horrified and demand she get an abortion. While the abortion is technically successful, it is implied via a fractured, emotional LESS