Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine
by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

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Actor: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Toni Collette
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Brand: KINNEAR/ARKIN
Producer: Marc Turtletaub
Producer: Albert Berger
Producer: Bart Lipton
Producer: David T. Friendly
Producer: Jeb Brody
Writer: Michael Arndt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Little Miss Sunshine

DVD Review: A feel good movie
Summary: 5 Stars

A great movie that starts off depressing and ends with a burst. A few F words, so it would be a problem to watch as a family with young children the same age as the girl in the movie who is made to cover her ears.

DVD Review: 9 hellish steps to redemption
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a funny and touching movie with a sharply observed script and fine performances from all the cast. Although deceptively slight on plot there is plenty to enjoy during the insanely hapless road trip and the excruciating beauty pageant. And the journey is, of course, a cathartic one for all concerned. My only criticisms are that the quirkiness of the characters is a little clich?d and the ending a little too self-consciously feel-good. But these small faults detract little from its overall success.

DVD Review: We All Live In A Yellow VW Van
Summary: 4 Stars

A refreshing corrective to our American fetish with "Facing the Giants" and winning. As one reviewer insightfully stated: this movie really is about a family of losers who learn the most valuable lesson of all: winning ISN'T everything---it isn't even important. There are no "nine steps" to success or "eight steps" to peace with God. God and Life and Families are not systems we program for success, but Blessings we commit to---for better or for worse. We may not defeat the giants, figure out the correct steps to God, or get a new SUV. But life can still be sweet in a dysfuncional VW Van.

DVD Review: No redeeming value
Summary: 1 Stars

I might've found the family-bonding & little girl to be cute & adorable, but was disgusted with this filthy piece of garbage after Alan Arkin began cursing disgusting obscenities in front of his grandson & granddaughter in this film. Unfortunately Hollywood doesn't care about morality & class. They will exploit children to cash in on something. I guess if they think it can sell, go ahead & market it.

Admittedly, I am a fan of many R-Rated films, but I believe a line should be drawn & not crossed when the dialogue is raunchy in the presence of a child. Little Miss Sunshine is also R-Rated & NOT a family movie by any means. Give it a miss. One reviewer gave a great recommendation... see National Lampoon's Vacation (or Little Miss Marker (1980)) instead. (Either are really a far better choice.)

DVD Review: A wonderful surprise !!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie with it's rag tag bunch of losers was just interesting enought to keep me watching till the end. I was glad I did.The last ten minutes of the movie had me laughing so hard I was crying.

I had never heard of " Little Miss Sunshine " before I picked it up . It was a wonderful surprise that makes one feel good about family , no matter how crazy , nuts or dysfunctional we may be.

Description of Little Miss Sunshine

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.

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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