Greg Kinnear

Toni Collette

Steve Carell

Paul Dano

Abigail Breslin

Alan Arkin

Bryan Cranston

Beth Grant

Wallace Langham

Matt Winston

Julio Oscar Mechoso

Marc Turtletaub

Jill Talley

Brenda Canela

Chuck Loring

Justin Shilton

Gordon Thomson

Steven Christopher Parker

John Walcutt

Paula Newsome

Dean Norris

Lauren Shiohama

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Jerry Giles

Geoff Meed

Joan Scheckel

Mel Rodriguez

Casandra Ashe

Alexandria Alaman

Alissa Anderegg

Brittany Baird

Cambria Baird

Brenae Bandy

Kristen Holaas

Maliah Hudson

Destry Jacobs

Lindsey Jordan

Shane Murphy

Annabelle Roberts

Sydni Stevenson-Love

Nicole Stoehr

Lauren Yee

Terry Bolo

George W. Bush

Jonathan Dayton

Valerie Faris

Albert Berger

David T. Friendly

Peter Saraf

Ron Yerxa

Tim Suhrstedt

Pamela Martin

Justine Arteta

Kalina Ivanov

Alan E. Muraoka

Melissa M. Levander

Nancy Steiner

Michael Arndt

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Angel Radefeld

Nicole Sortillon Amos

Heather Anderson

Kate Greenberg

Gregory J. Smith

Ellis J. Barbacoff

Robert Cook

Joseph Kevin Garcia

Rich Murray

Christopher Pappas

Ryan Wylie

Gregg Barbanell

Patrick Cusack

Larry Hopkins

Stacey Michaels

Christopher Sidor

Lucy Sustar

Greg Zimmerman

Ian Eyre

Chad Buehler

Steve Rodriguez

Clay Cullen

Traci Richelle Harrison

Thomas Bango

Brian Cantrell

Theda Cunningham

Greg Dellerson

Josh Denering

Keith A. Hascher

Jimi Johnson

Frederick Lawrence

Christopher Mack

Michelle Pizanis

Chris J. Rossi

Barbara Harris

Bethany Bernhard

Edward Gould

Ian Elias

Terel Gibson

Jessica Otto

Mark Todd Osborne

Dan Milner

Brad Haehnel

Joseph Aroesti

Dillan Esco

Marty Osborne

Erik Bright

Thomas Farr

Jennifer Zolten Freed

Shaun Greenspan

Erick Kwiecien

Charissa McLain

Sara Pollack

Bryan Yaconelli

James Everett Dayton

Michael Beugg

Jeb Brody

Bart Lipton

Lyn Matsuda Norton

Suzanne C. Swindle

Michyl-Shannon Quilty

Theresa Greene

Bob Dohrmann

Eric Lee

Lawrence Karman

Jeffrey Greeley

Stephen P. Robinson

Andrew DeCristofaro

Rick Ash

Terry Rodman

Steven F. Nelson

Craig Dollinger

Thomas Robinson Harper

Kacie Borrowman

Michael Hugghins

Christie Hayes

Matthew Taylor

Larry Rippenkroeger

Riley Harper

Kim Davis-Wagner

Susan Jacobs

Anne Litt

Marguerite Pomerhn Derricks

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Big Beach

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husband wife relationship

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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

"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.

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Alan Arkin might have got the Oscar but it's Greg Kinnear who steals this for me. Talk about a pain in the proverbial! He is "Richard", a rather pompously self-motivated man who is trying to sell his nine point plan for success to "Grossmann" (a fleeting appearance from Bryan Cranston). Meantime, his young daughter "Olive" (Abigail Breslin) is continually practising for the eponymous pageant under the aegis of her foul-mouthed, cocaine-snorting, grandfather (Arkin) and beside her whacky brother "Dwayne" (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence and hates everyone and everything. He just wants to join the air force. There's also a surprise guest in their home. "Uncle Frank" (Steve Carell). Now he's just got out of the ER having tried to kill himself after his student boyfriend dumped him for another Proust-spouting, but wealthier, scholar! At the helm, trying to keep this family from complete self-destruction is "Sheryl" (Toni Collette) and that task becomes distinctly more difficult when young "Oilve" is awarded a spot in the national finals - in California. Dad can't go, mum can't drive, brother couldn't care less - but "Olive" is determined so into a clapped out VW camper-van they all reluctantly pile and off on a mini road trip. This entertainingly addresses plenty of their demons, allows for a little tragedy to galvanise attitudes and ultimately, for me anyway, demonstrates clearly the ghastliness of those hideous ceremonies that stink of precociousness and gushing parental aspiration. The journey on four wheels is as much a metaphor for that being taken by all in their push-start jalopy, and with Kinnear really getting under my fingernails at just about every turn it's a much quirkier and more thought-provoking comedy that leaves very little out of bounds. Collette also looks like she is having some fun as they deliver a pithily delivered script that does entertain (and begs the question: why would she ever have married "Richard" in the first place?). Thank heavens for granddad and his musical tastes. Oh, and his porn, too...!

"Olivia Wins" Full Scene

Little Miss Sunshine - Official Trailer [HD]

Little Miss Sunshine( 2006)

A family on the verge of a breakdown

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A review by zombieakacris

Written by zombieakacris on Sun Nov 17 2019

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