Product Details

• Actors: J. Evan Bonifant, Barbara Garrick, Julie Halston, Robert Pall, Harriet Harris (III)
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Zeitgeist Films
• DVD Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00031TYIA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,572 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dottie Gets Spanked" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

Todd Haynes's rarely screened short is like a Freudian haiku: it hints at some larger psychosexual truths, yet glides coolly under them, leaving us to extract our own meanings. It centers on Stevie, a six-year-old boy who is obsessed with Dottie, the star of an "I Love Lucy"-like television show. Mother indulges his devotion, Father disapproves, and the girls on the school bus, who, unlike Stevie, can freely discuss their adoration of Dottie, think he's a freak. Haynes subtly presents the forces acculturating an effeminate boy in the stilted atmosphere of fifties Long Island. In the face of this pressure, Stevie retains his poise and dwells on fantasies of revenge. By the end, the question of who does or doesn't deserve to get spanked gains a remarkable intensity. -Michael Agger
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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DOTTIE GETS SPANKED - DVD Movie

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A small gem, December 25, 2004

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Steven L. Patterson (New York, NYUSA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dottie Gets Spanked (DVD)

This wonderful short film brilliantly (and entertainingly) captures the moment when a young boy's burgeoning sexuality becomes something he feels he needs to hide. Not to mention the fact that it's a spot-on period recreation, something at which filmmaker Haynes appears to effortlessly excel. A great companion piece to his later and more mature work on the same decade, FAR FROM HEAVEN. And like that film, one in which one false step could have caused the entire structure to collapse. An astonishing balancing act -- very funny, very sad, very moving.