Little Miss Sunshine
starring: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano
directed by: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
directed by: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - WIDESCREEN (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0024543403319
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 211
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 2006
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Take a hilarious ride with the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families in comedy history.
Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program...with no success. Meanwhile, 'pro-honesty' mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after 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?with riotously funny results.
Amazon.com:
Pile together a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. That formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious study of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled 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 give 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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Average Rating: 
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- funNow this film is a bit on the odd ball side, it is funny, and I like it, I don't think it was Oscar ... Read More
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- Little Miss SunshineThis movie turned out to be a sleeper! It started out slow and I wandered if I hadn't made a mistake. ... Read More
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- Little Miss SunshineMost families will enjoy this because most families aren't mental about making their young daughters look ... Read More
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- Disfunction at its most mediocreWow, was this ever a lame movie! It's unbelievable to me that so many people liked it! How is it possible ... Read More
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- Hilarious and heart-broken at the same time. Abigail Breslin's so cute, lovely, and innocently funny. It got 2 Oscars in 2007.It contains good dark humour. It won't appeal to many people. Many scenes made me laugh and broke my heart ... Read More
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