Palindromes (film)

Palindromes is a 2004 American comedydrama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. It references Solondzs 1995 film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. It competed for the Golden Lion award at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.

The film opens with a funeral for a young woman the deceased is Dawn Wiener, the protagonist from Solondzs 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 Dawns tearful parents Angela Pietropinto and Bill Buell sit in the audience.A few years later, Aviva, Dawns cousin, desires to have a child. She has sex with Judah Robert Agri, a family friend, and becomes pregnant. Avivas parents are horrified and demand she gets an abortion. While the abortion is technically successful, it is implied via a fractured, emotional conversation with the doctor Stephen Singer that Aviva can no longer have children. Not fully conscious, Aviva is unaware of this, and her parents, already fragile, lead her to believe all is well when she awakens, afraid to upset Aviva. ........

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