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Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine

7.7

Little Miss Sunshine

R·2006·102m

Summary

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Crew

Director

Jonathan Dayton

Director

Valerie Faris

Writer

Michael Arndt

Reviews

zombieakacris

zombieakacris

November 17, 2019

7

"Fuck a lot of woman kid, I have no reason to lie, not just one. A lot of women."

Description: A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Review: Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 dramatic comedy that delivers all around. With solid cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carrell an oscar winning performance by Allan Arkin and Bryan Cranston and Dean Norris in Albuquerque pre Breaking Bad and a great script Little Miss Sunshine is a film that I missed when it first came out but glad I got around to it.

Kinnear is the loser husband to Collette's Sheryl and Carell is her gay suicidal brother. Dano plays her quiet son and Arkin the heroine addicted dirty Grampa. Breslin's character Olive qualifies for the Little Miss Sunshine competition and it's a race to beat the clock as the family takes a road trip from Albuquerque to California filled with unexpected surprises and personal revelations.

The films ending solidifies the families bond and leaves us wanting to see hopefully another chapter in the families life down the road. No Pun intended. Little Miss Sunshine is defiantly worth checking out if you have not already or just a rewatch as a reminder of how good it is.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$8,000,000.00

Revenue:

$100,523,181.00

Keywords

california
husband wife relationship
sibling relationship
literature professor
family's daily life
highway
beauty contest
beauty queen contest
dysfunctional family
road trip
family relationships
family holiday
road movie
woman director
lighthearted
empathetic