Wiener-Dog

Comedy from the great Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the Doll House), starring Greta Gerwig, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, Zosia Mamet and Kieran Culkin. Follows four interconnected stories, all connected by a dachshund.

"Tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man's best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog then encounters a floundering film professor, as well as an embittered elderly woman and her needy granddaughter - all longing for something more.

"Twenty years ago, Todd Solondz took the Sundance Film Festival by storm when Welcome to the Dollhouse won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Festival. Since then he has gone on to establish himself as one of the most uncompromising voices working in film." (Sundance Film Festival)

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