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Little Miss Sunshine

Rating

Brand TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT

Type DVD

Audience Rating R (Restricted)

Release Date 2006-12-19

Actor Steve Carell; Toni Collette; Greg Kinnear; Abigail Breslin; Paul Dano;

Director Jonathan Dayton; Valerie Faris;

Length 101 minutes

List Price $14.98

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Get a hilarious ride together with the Hoovers, one of the much endearingly fractured families in comedy history.

Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program...together with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, counting her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital afterwards being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers?the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behavior recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her?together with riotously funny outcomes.

Pile mutually a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. This formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious learn of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled together with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for a weekend trek to L.A. in order to get moppet daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Much of the pleasure of this journey comes from watching some skillful comic actors doing their thing: Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as the parents (he's hoping to become a self-help authority), Alan Arkin as a grandfather all too willing to provide uproariously inappropriate advice to a sullen teenage grandson (Paul Dano), and a subdued Steve Carell as a jilted gay professor on the verge of suicide. The film is a crowd-pleaser, and if anything is a little too eager to bend itself in the direction of quirk-loving Sundance audiences; it can feel forced. But the breezy momentum and the ingenious actors help push the material over any bumps in the road.-- Robert Horton

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Customer Reviews

Interesting but Lame Ending 2010-07-19

By Jiang Xueqin (Toronto, Canada)

"Little Miss Sunshine" is about a perfectly dysfunctional family who for whatever reason decide to drive from New Mexico to California so that the young daughter Olive may participate in a competition where seven-year old girls must prove themselves perfect. The father is trying to make it as a motivational speaker, and each time he speaks he sounds like an infomercial. The grandfather is an aggressive cocaine addict who decides he cannot end his life until he offends everyone on the planet. The son takes a vow of silence, and his silence, along with all those push-ups and chin-ups, makes him violent and angry all the time. The uncle is the nation's foremost Proust scholar, and decides to emulate the great writer by screwing up his life and almost taking it. Even the family van has temper tantrums and erratic behavior.

"Little Miss Sunshine" is supposed to be funny and quirky, but it's really disturbing and annoying. We are captive in the family van as this irksome family goes on the road, and it's like we're being held hostage to their eccentricities. "Little Miss Sunshine" is just too much "The Office" meets "Family Ties."

Hysterical 2010-05-29

By J. B. Young (Everett, Wa)

Absolutely wonderful movie. Rarely does a movie stay entertaining and engaging from opening to closing credits, but this film bats 1000. If you think the moms and families on "Toddlers and Tiaras" serve as role models and fine examples of positive influence on society, let this movie serve as a reality check.

A totally amazing adventure! 2010-04-14

By Ankur Mukherjee

'Little Miss Sunshine' is an extremely well made film and its just like witnessing a family living right next door to you, and you are even more surprised when you find out how down to earth the charecters in the family are and are so genuine that you may even compare some of them with your close neighbors or people you may or maynot know. Abigail Breslin simply steals the show, she is beyond words! and an extremely flamboyant performence by Steve Carell, Toni Collette and the rest other cast. The film will surely entertain you, carry you along with its emotion. Witness every inch of this unforgettable adventure of a family, you wont be dissapointed.