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Release Date: 2005
Cast: Shayna Levine, Danton Stone, Sharon Wilkins, Angela Pietropinto, Hillary B. Smith, Will Denton, Emani Sledge, Hannah Freiman, Richard Masur, Bill Buell, Rachel Corr, Jennifer Jason Leigh ...MORE
Cast: Shayna Levine, Danton Stone, Sharon Wilkins, Angela Pietropinto, Hillary B. Smith, Will Denton, Emani Sledge, Hannah Freiman, Richard Masur, Bill Buell, Rachel Corr, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ellen Barkin, Debra Monk, Matthew Faber, Valerie Shusterov ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Experimental Film, Satire, Indie, Comedy-Drama, Avant-Garde, Black Comedy, Drama Film, Coming Of Age, Comedy, 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
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