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Little Miss Sunshine, 2006
English
USA
Profile of Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine can be described as offbeat, witty, and feel good. The plot revolves around an obsessive quest, a dysfunctional family, and contests and competitions. Its comic aspect comes from dry humor and farce. Little Miss Sunshine's main genres are comedy and independent. In terms of style, it has a road movie structure and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is realistic. Little Miss Sunshine takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being an Oscar winner, a blockbuster, and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a date night. Note that Little Miss Sunshine involves drugs/alcohol and profanity.
Summary of Little Miss Sunshine
Picked up after a well-received showing at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is a low-budget comedy about a family road trip from Albuquerque to California. The story begins when young Olive (Abigail Breslin) is given a shot at the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, and manages to coerce her family into driving west in their worn-down VW van. Olive's father, Richard (Greg Kinnear), takes charge of the trip, while her mother, Sheryl (Toni Collette), brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), uncle Frank (Steve Carell), and eccentric grandfather (Alan Arkin) all come along for the ride. What follows resembles a budget-stricken version of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES: seemingly endless (and hilarious) mishaps befall the family as they wind their way across the country. Couple this with the witty interplay between a well-drawn set of dysfunctional characters, and that's the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE formula in a nutshell; all the audience needs to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
The grainy texture of co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's film may initially startle viewers unaccustomed to the indie film world. But its a testament to the cast and crew's efforts that the limitations imposed on the filmmakers are long forgotten by the end of the film. Any concerns about visual murkiness give way to belly laughs and bemusement as the road trip ends and the beauty pageant begins. Likely to have a broad appeal, Dayton and Faris's film resembles a version of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION directed with the pithy eye of Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), and it's to the movie's credit that it manages to successfully marry these two seemingly disparate worlds.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 August 2006 |
| Runtime: | 101 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Sly, near-perfect comedy.
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- by: Ruthe Stein
USA Today
It has been a while since we've seen such a consistently funny and entertaining road movie.
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- by: Claudia Puig
Users Reviews
My wife actually saw this movie before I got a chance to. She saw it at a film festival and just would not stop talking about it. So needless to say, the hype factor was quite high. I worried for nothing. This is one of the funniest, most truthful...
- 12.August.2009
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- by: karlp48
- karlp48 rated this movie
9/10Amazing
Few times a film can live up to the hype and this film did it for me. Funny, rich characters, and different plots twists. My only negative is that the film ended early and I could have seen a little more. Guess we have to wait for the DVD that has...
- 23.March.2009
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- by: prozac pop
- prozac pop rated this movie8/10Great
