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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
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Reviews Counted:205
Fresh:186
Rotten:19
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release: Jul 26, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $59.8M
Synopsis: The Hoover family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old... [More]
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
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REVIEWS FOR LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
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While the screenplay is impressive and deserving of its recognition, it is Alan Arkin's performance-of-a-lifetime that separates this from other well-written small movies.
Oct 1, 2009
Harmless enough as passable road movies go, but I can't help but wish directors of films like these would grow some damn balls.
Sep 19, 2009
Sundance-calibrated sitcom
Aug 30, 2009
I loved it, every bit of it.
Apr 29, 2009
Like little kids spouting dirty words in certain comedies, this film from first-time directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris undermines the subversive with the self-conscious. But it’s still funny.
Apr 23, 2009
...mediocre black comedy.
Apr 21, 2009
This inspirational, hilariously sad dysfunctional-family-road-trip dramedy offers absolutely everything -- except pretension.
Nov 20, 2008
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Oct 18, 2008
Top CriticA few touching and surprising moments aside, it all feels a little prefab, with family dysfunction as the indie version of a high concept.
Aug 7, 2008
Writer Michael Arndt has cleverly captured the bribery and corruption which lie at the heart of most families.
Jun 13, 2008
The chaotic dinner scene pops like syncopated jazz, setting the tone for a warm, funny film that has more smiles than belly laughs.
Jun 8, 2008
Accumulates depth and fleshes out its characters.
Mar 11, 2008
Charming, moving, warm and brilliantly hysterical, Little Miss Sunshine is easily the funniest thing I have seen in a theater in years.
Feb 28, 2008
A cheap Sisyphean metaphor literally drives the thing: at first played for laughs, it's recycled to the point of nausea.
Feb 1, 2008
Ride along to dysfunction in quirky indie comedy.
Oct 1, 2007
A hilariously caustic package that makes its ultimate uplift genuinely feel-good instead of insufferably saccharine.
Aug 26, 2007
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.
Jun 19, 2007
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