What is Dollhouse / Death Of A Superhero about?

Double Feature: DOLLHOUSE, 2012, 95 min. Dir. Kirsten Sheridan. A group of five street teens breaks into an upper-class house in the Dublin suburb of Dalkey. With drugs and alcohol aplenty, the night quickly turns crazy and out-of-control, with truth games leading to unexpected revelations. Sheridan's raw third feature captures the anger, hopelessness and insecurity of being a teenager, and delivers perfectly controlled yet escalating tension. DEATH OF A SUPERHERO, 2012, 97 min. Dir. Ian Fitzgibbon. Blending live action with animation and adapting a novel by Anthony McCarten, DEATH OF A SUPERHERO follows the fate of typical 15-year-old Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), whose life is shaken to its core when he is diagnosed with cancer. Left bald and gaunt by chemo, Donald retreats into his own world, where he becomes an invincible superhero.

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What is Dollhouse / Death Of A Superhero about?: Double Feature: DOLLHOUSE, 2012, 95 min. Dir. Kirsten Sheridan. A group of five street teens breaks into an upper-class house in the Dublin suburb of Dalkey. With drugs and alcohol aplenty, the night quickly turns crazy and out-of-control, with truth games leading to unexpected revelations. Sheridan's raw third feature captures the anger, hopelessness and insecurity of being a teenager, and delivers perfectly controlled yet escalating tension.

DEATH OF A SUPERHERO, 2012, 97 min. Dir. Ian Fitzgibbon. Blending live action with animation and adapting a novel by Anthony McCarten, DEATH OF A SUPERHERO follows the fate of typical 15-year-old Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), whose life is shaken to its core when he is diagnosed with cancer. Left bald and gaunt by chemo, Donald retreats into his own world, where he becomes an invincible superhero.