Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

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7.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Valerie Faris

Jonathan Dayton

Starring (View all)

Abigail Breslin
Olive Hoover

Greg Kinnear
Richard Hoover

Paul Dano
Dwayne

Alan Arkin
Grandpa Edwin Hoover

Toni Collette
Sheryl Hoover

Steve Carell
Frank Ginsberg

Marc Turtletaub
Doctor #1

Jill Talley
Cindy

Written by

Michael Arndt
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Sentimental, dark, nearly perfect movie.

16 years, 4 months ago at Jan 12 5:21

The Cineast

12 votes

A dysfunctional family travels hundreds of miles on their bus, just to enter the daughter in a beauty pageant.

When talking about dysfunctional families, you can't get much better than this one. Little Miss Sunshine is a perfect blend of dark humor, emotion, and sentimental moments. It mixes both the positive and the negative emotions throughout each character, showing what each ind... read more

A very good movie

14 years, 9 months ago at Aug 29 15:41

johanlefourbe

6 votes

Since I kept hearing good things about this flick, I thought I should check it out. Eventually, I wasn’t disappointed and I thought it was a very good movie. Indeed, it is basically a typical quirky indie drama/comedy movie but they managed to create some really touching characters instead of the usual eccentric caricatures. Indeed, it deals with a family and, basically, they are actually all lo... read more

Overrated, but solid comedy/drama

17 years, 11 months ago at Jul 5 6:18

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4 votes

"There's two kinds of people in this world, there's winners and there's losers. Okay, you know what the difference is? Winners don't give up."

Little Miss Sunshine is ostensibly a road trip movie concerning the realisation that family is family. It's a wholly daunting task to reinvent the family road trip genre in this contemporary era of cinema, especially if the filmmakers are aim... read more

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A comedy about a family of six who are all having a mental breakdown at the same time. To ease their mental lows they decide to take a cross country road trip to a “Little Miss Sunshine” contest that their daughter has qualified for.

Release date: 18 August 2006

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