Getting to Know You (2012)

Heather Matarazzo, whose puffy-lipped quizzicality has grown more sensual and commanding since ''Welcome to the Dollhouse,'' has the pivotal role of Judith, a thoughtful, passive teenager who is waiting, along with her brother (Zach Branff), in an upstate New York bus station. We get vivid flashes of the domestic snake pit that these two siblings have left behind: life with their parents, a pair of alcoholic ballroom dancers (played, with charismatic force, by Bebe Neuwirth and Mark Blum) who have dropped off the bottom rung of showbiz. Meanwhile, Jimmy (Michael Weston), another kid at the station, spins further tales of everyday destruction, which lend the film an elegant, brooding symmetry.