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Release Date
• USA: Apr 15, 2005
• UK: 27 Oct 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 13, 2005
BoxOffice: $0.5M
Official Website:
Palindromes Website
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country USA
Studio Extra Large Pictures
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Psychodrama, Coming Of Age, Experimental
Plot: With PALINDROMES, fiercely independent writer-director Todd Solondz (HAPPINESS, STORYTELLING) places the topic of abortion under his scathing microscope. This time around, Solondz takes an even more daring approach by casting seven different actors to play the film's lead role. Aviva Victor is the young New Jersey cousin of the recently deceased Dawn Wiener (the heroine from Solondz's Sundance-winning WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE). Living under the watchful eye of her overprotective parents Joyce (Ellen Barkin) and Steve (Richard Masur), Aviva dreams of the day when she will be able to call herself a mother--a wish that is prematurely granted after an adolescent tryst. Unfortunately, her parents will not allow her to have the baby under any circumstances, which causes Aviva to run away from home. On the road, she falls for a lonely trucker (Stephen Adly Guirgis) and winds up at the home of the ultra-evangelical Mama Sunshine (Debra Monk), who cares for a wide variety of disabled children. But when the trucker reappears and it becomes quite clear that the bond he shares with Aviva is not just some perverted fantasy, the relationship builds to its inevitably tragic conclusion. Solondz's biting satire is a bold statement in support of a mother's right to choose, but it also takes a
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| Directed by |
Todd Solondz
Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Storytelling |
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| Written by |
Todd Solondz
Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Storytelling |
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| Cast |
Ellen Barkin
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Fan |
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Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Pallbearer, L.A. Without a Map | | Bill Buell
Spy Game, Dark Water, Welcome to the Dollhouse | | |
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