Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
91 %
Reviews Counted: 188 Fresh: 172 Rotten:16 Average Rating: 7.7/10
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What happens when you stuff a failed motivation speaker, his wife, the nation's number one Proust scholar, an elderly potty-mouthed heroin addict, a teen who’s mute by choice, and a bespectacled little pageant hopeful into a mini VW bus for a three day road trip? You get this hilarious but moving satire about a dysfunctional family obsessed with winning. Credit must go to the ensemble cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, and Abigail Breslin and the delightfully funny script by Michael Arndt, which first-time directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris handled perfectly.
Runtime: 3 hrs 2 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 26, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $59,831,476
Synopsis: "Little Miss Sunshine" is an American family road comedy that shatters the mold. Brazenly satirical and yet deeply human, 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... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Screenwriter: Michael Arndt
Producer: Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Composer: Mychael Danna
Screenwriter: Michael Arndt
Producer: Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Composer: Mychael Danna
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The chaotic dinner scene pops like syncopated jazz, setting the tone for a warm, funny film that has more smiles than belly laughs.
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06/08/08
Charming, moving, warm and brilliantly hysterical, Little Miss Sunshine is easily the funniest thing I have seen in a theater in years.
02/28/08
A cheap Sisyphean metaphor literally drives the thing: at first played for laughs, it's recycled to the point of nausea.
02/01/08
A hilariously caustic package that makes its ultimate uplift genuinely feel-good instead of insufferably saccharine.
08/26/07
a family road movie brimming with spot-on performances, hilarious situations, and plenty of good feeling - and it treats its comic characters with a rare affection.
06/19/07
The film is part of an emerging trend that taps into the very real and urgent concerns of working people in increasingly pauperized Bush's America.
04/22/07
It doesn't exploit its characters for comedy or life lessons; it simply embraces the family members and lets them be themselves.
03/24/07
It works better than most movies with a quirky Sundance pedigree, because the filmmakers aren't quick to paint any of their characters as morally wrong.
03/15/07
Royal Tenenbaums meets Malcolm in the Middle. Oh, and let's not forget Weekend at Bernie's.
02/25/07
Little Miss Sunshine is an example of a very nicely done small movie about family that is content and secure enough to deliver everything in a simple, straightforward way, all while being silly and implausible.
12/31/06
This film opened five weeks ago on seven screens. In the entire country. So I can understand how you may have missed it. Now that it is on more then 1400 screens, you have no excuse.
12/13/06
Melancólico como sua bela trilha sonora, o filme oscila com talento entre a comédia e o drama enquanto seus personagens aprendem importantes lições sobre o que é realmente relevante em nossa curta passagem por este planeta.
12/08/06
But since this film giddily oversteps all other bounds of decorum, up to the edge of child pornography, I won't complain about the happy ending.
11/11/06
Sunny or dark, comedy should never be as predictable as Little Miss Sunshine.
11/10/06
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