20 Best Indie Movies Of 2016
8. Wiener-Dog
Director Todd Solondz is definitely an acquired taste, but if his particular brand of suburbia-set black comedy boils your kettle (or if you just really love sausage dogs) then Wiener-Dog, the sort of sequel-spinoff to his breakout debut Welcome to the Dollhouse, will likely be right up your street.
Split into four vignettes, the storyline is connected by the eponymous dachshund as she is passed between four different oddball owners – firstly, a young boy; secondly a veterinary nurse named Dawn Wiener, who Solondz fans will remember as Welcome to the Dollhouse’s protagonist; next a failed filmmaker turned film school professor played by Danny DeVito and lastly, Ellen Burstyn’s crotchety old grandmother.
It’s a typically offbeat Solondz affair and features a two-minute long intermission during which the canine protagonist strolls past various American landscapes to the tune of her very own theme song, The Ballad of Wiener-Dog. But what’s not to love about a film starring both a cute pup and Danny DeVito?