Little Miss Sunshine (DVD)

...main acting cast) - Little Miss Sunshine is all about the rather dysfunctional Hoover family, who, when they find out that their seven year old daughter Olive (played by Abigail Breslin) has been given the chance to compete in a beauty pageant in California called the 'Little Miss Sunshine' pageant, decide to rush off on a day and a half road trip from their home town in Albuquerque to the pageant location in California. The whole family cram themselves ...
...- Certificate - Little Miss Sunshine has a 15 rating. This is for strong language and for the drug references and drug use shown, as grandfather Edwin happens to take heroine (not something you see everyday, a grandfather snorting cocaine but there you go!). - Official Website - http://www.foxsearchlight.com/littlemisssunshine2/ On the site, you can find the film trailer, info. on the cast, see photos, you can find info. on the production, get ...

IzzyS 03.12.2007 (04.12.2007) · Read full review
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...family - an intelligent, curious little girl who is obsessed with beauty pageants and their idealistic aspects. HUMOUR: The main element of the film is humour. It runs throughout the film, and I think it's this that helps brighten various grave scenes. The humour, often quite dark, permeates the more serious circumstances. A good example is a scene in which a police officer pulls them over - after finding porn mag's in their trunk, he is oblivious ...
...boy? That's silly." Little moments like this make this film a joy to watch - Olive's pure innocence comes through powerfully with her performance, making her easily the best character in the film. Abigail Breslin, playing Olive, is a talented little actress - understandably nominated for Best Supporting Actress at both the BAFTA's and Academy Awards (making her the youngest actress ever nominated). Many of the films humorous scenes are also very ...

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Little Miss Sunshine is a bit of a different film to the type that I enjoy watching but none the less it is one of my favourites. It first came out in the cinemas in 2006, so is a couple of years old now. Little Miss Sunshine is about an American family. They are not the perfect family that is normally depicted in films though, they are a bit rough round the edges. The dad Richard (Greg Kinnear) is a life coach who is trying his hardest to become ...
...beauty queen. She is a little chubby though and wears glasses, so doesn't seem like your average beauty queen. Her older brother Dwayne (Paul Dano) has taken a vow of silence until he fulfils his dream of becoming an airline pilot. The already disfunctional family are added to when Sheryls brother Frank (Steve Carell) tries to commit suicide after the man he loves ends up with someone else. The story follows this family as they all head off on a ...

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Synopsis Little Miss Sunshine is a satirical and deeply human American road comedy. The film introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history: the Hoovers, whose trip to a pre-pubescent beauty pageant results not only in comic mayhem but in death, transformation and a moving look at the surprising rewards of being losers in a winning-crazed culture. The film strikes a nerve with everyone who's ever ...
...Olive is a typically curious little girl but she is obssessed with beauty pageants and dreams of becoming a beauty queen. Dwayne has taken a vow of silence and wishes to become an ace pilot. Richards dad, Edwin is currently living with the family after being chucked out of his retirement home for his antics and he's become a drug addict. The add to the mix Sheryl's suicidal brother, Frank. Frank is gay and recently tried to kill himself after the ...

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...lot of positive things about Little Miss Sunshine, the thing that made me want to see it more than anything else was a review in which it was compared to the movie Welcome To The Dollhouse. Most importantly the movie had no press coverage prior to its arrival at a film festival, and became probably the best known independent movie of 2006 certainly one of the biggest success stories of the year. So what did the movie offer and deliver to receive ...
...be a finalised in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. What begins is a 700 mile journey in a defective VW Camper van, that ends in a journey of discovery as the family repair years of damage. Sound interesting? Well literally that’s all there is to it; there is no fantastic wit, no great laughs; and the emotional story the family go through is nothing we have not seen before. If you remember the National Lampoons Vacation movies then compare ...

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...aspects out of it. Little Miss Sunshine is about Olive, she is a little girl dreaming of becoming Miss America someday. When she wins a spot to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant in California, her family decides to take her on a road trip in their VW microbus. Her father, Richard, is a motivational speaker on the verge of bankruptcy. His wife, Sheryl , doesn't really get along with him, and her brother Frank has attempted suicide after a failed ...
...a heroin addiction. The Little road trip takes on some unexpected turns. Richard finds out his business partner Stan has canceled their deal. He gets into a big argument with Sheryl, while Frank is stuck in depression-land. Then grandpa passes away and jeopardizes the whole trip. Finally, they arrive in Redondo Beach and the family must learn to stick together for Olive's sake. When they arrive at the pagent Olive performs a dance to Rick James' ...

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...Olive (Abigail Breslin) an adorable little girl who is always upbeat, she is obsessed with the Miss America beauty pageants therefore when an opportunity arises for her to enter the beauty pageant entitled Little Miss Sunshine she jumps at the chance. Amazingly, Olive gets an entry into the pageant by default, she is ecstatic but the pageant is 800 miles away in California and with limited money flying is not an option, the family are going to have ...
...fan of Indie films therefore Little Miss Sunshine spelt disaster right from the offset for me and it was one that I was avoiding like the plague. Then after hearing the plot of the movie two thoughts crossed my mind; my first thought was how on Earth can such a simply premise make for an Oscar nominated film, these days to garner an Oscar nomination you tend to need on of two things; an array of CGI effects that will keep the audience glued to their ...

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Little Miss Sunshine was definitely the independent film of 2006. Garnering four Oscar nomination (two of which were wins), six BAFTA nominations (with two wins), a Golden Globe nomination and one of the highest bids for a film in the history of the Sundance Film festival, I must say expected nothing short of greatness from Little Miss Sunshine. Described by the Daily Mail as “The funniest comedy of the year by a mile”, I expected a primarily cheerful ...
...default, to participate in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. The story then transforms from a tale of a dysfunctional family to a family road trip movie. During the course if their journey the individual problems of each family member become progressively bigger; Richard has very little success with his motivational success programme, Dwayne’s dreams of being a pilot may not be as possible as he hopes, a catalyst for Franks attempted suicide ...

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Little Miss Sunshine was one of those films that everyone but me seemed to have seen, and so I decided it was on my list of films to see. It sounded quite good as I had heard really good things about it and thought the fact it had been nominated for Oscars really made it appeal much more. So when a friend offered to lend me it after I spotted it in their DVD collection I did of course say yes. Its a quirky American comedy, with a plot that hasn’t ...
...make the trip to the little miss sunshine beauty pageant, with a lot of mishaps along the way, most of which no one was expecting. However, when I say dysfunctional they really are dysfunctional with each one having some strange quirk, except for Sheryl, the overworked mother who holds everything together. The rest of the Hoover family consists of Olive, Edwin, Frank, Dwayne and Richard. Frank is Sheryl’s gay brother, who moves in with the family ...

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Little Miss Sunshine was written in 2006 won 2 Oscars and another 40 wins & 43 nominations and not surprisingly why. It took 5 years to bring "Little Miss Sunshine" Indie comedy to the screen. The film was directed by the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The film was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. The film starred Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, and Steve Carell.This ...
...enjoyed. We found Little Miss Sunshine original, different, fun and unique. Description of Film In Albuquerque the housewife brings her suicidal brother home to meet the dysfunctional family. Frank is homosexual and loves looking at porn magazines. The little girl wins a place in a beauty pageant and the family embark in an interesting family trip in an attempt to get the little girl to the pageant on time. The film makes you laugh out loud my ...

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...in my Ass" (Grandpa - Little Miss Sunshine) Like probably everyone reading this I love a good laugh, however, I don't think I'm easily pleased when it comes to comedies. Too many of them are based on laughing at stupid people pulling stupid faces which gets very boring. The last couple of 'comedies' I went to see at the pictures had me groaning in disappointment, so it wasn't with the highest of hopes that I went to see Little Miss Sunshine. How ...
...together in order that the little girl can take part in the beauty pageant of the title. She has reached the finals by default, but Olive Hoover just doesn't seem the type to take part in those awful American child beauty pageants. She loves to watch beauty pageants on TV and her heart is set on taking part, although with her big glasses and sticky out tummy you wonder how she thinks she'll win it, (apparently she wore a fat suit for the part). Her ...

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...of this, he was a little boring though despite this, his character was really prominent and I actually enjoyed watching him do and say nothing (or perhaps it was because I found him attractive!). 6. Grandpa Edwin Hoover - This is dad of the dad. He's meant to be a comical character - a drug sniffing, porno elderly man with a big gob. I didn't find him funny at all and half way through the film, he's gone for good (you'll find out why if you ever ...
...at all! There's also a little misfortune concerning the Grandpa but how the family deal with this is not amusing or original either. When they arrive at the pageant (Yes they arrive - I doubt you were on tenterhooks anyway) albeit late, the contest is full of dazzling talented young girls and then there is Olive, who performs the secret routine designed by her Grandpa - remember, he is a porno old man so you can only imagine the sort of thing he ...

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...screen this tale about a little girl who enters into a beauty pageant despite the obvious fact that she is not traditionally beautiful. With only a moment's notice, her family are determined to get her to the event on time, and therefore arrange a road trip in Grandpa's VW van. Along with Olive for the trip is her parents; the encouraging mother who wants to support her kids in whatever they do, the self righteous arrogant father who refuses to ever ...
...grandfather who loves his grandkids but appears to hate everybody else, the suicidal uncle who has been fired from his job, and the optionally muted brother who has made it his goal to get into flying school and wont speak a word until he achieves that. What starts out as a short notice road trips soon descends into a myriad of disasterous events that threaten to prevent Olive from entering the pageant, but will the family's determination win over, ...

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...conformist and plastic society, the little girl's final performance at the pageant is so disturbing that I found myself sympathising with the ogre-like pageant organiser, whom the film is asking us to despise. What else does the film tell us? By its conclusion, none of the characters appear to have grown or learnt anything from their experiences. Their circumstances remain unchanged and their dreams remain unfulfilled, which is a kind of depressing ...
...comedy. And child beauty pageants are simply too much of an easy target if the film is trying to take a shot at the crass superficiality of modern America. Ther are some touching moments and some fine performances but this is ultimately a cliched and not-very-funny comedy, which in my view does not deserve the credits which were heaped upon it. ...

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...dodgy camper van!) to the Little Miss Sunshine contest, which their young daughter wishes to compete in. The story follows each of the family members problems in life, all of them different and things that viewers could relate to. With letting on who has what problem, they include drug taking, aspirations that cant be fulfilled, work problems, attempted suicide and bodily image. It is a very moving film and highlights the importance of family to ...
...She is such a sweet little girl and as a viewer i felt very protective over her! She cares so much about her older brother too which is very nice to see. Greg Kinnear plays the neurotic father well too. Anyone who wants to feel there heart warmed should watch this film. You really feel like you're there with them on there journey. Some parts of it are very funny too, which balances out the more serious and sad parts of the film. The music in the ...

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