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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 240
Released: December 19, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.Episodes-Bonus Features:Disc 1 Side A:**Full Screen Feature**Audio Commentary with directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and writer Michael Arndt**4 Alternate Endings with optional commentary by directors Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris**"Till the End of Time" performed by DeVotchka from the soundtrack**TrailersDisc 1 Side B:**Widescreen Feature**Audio Commentary with Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and Writer Michael Arndt**4 Alternate Endings with optional commentary by directors Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris**"Till the End of Time" performed by DeVotchka from the soundtrack**Forced Trailer Combo: Thank You For Smoking Confetti Trust the ManSystem Requirements:Running Time: 101 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 024543403319 Manufacturer No: 2240331
Description of Little Miss Sunshine:
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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Stills from Little Miss Sunshine Little Miss Sunshine Reviews:
fun 
2008-10-06 - Now this film is a bit on the odd ball side, it is funny, and I like it, I don't think it was Oscar worthy, but then I didn't think the Movie "Babe" ( the pig one ) was best Movie and it won, "Apollo 13" was much better for that yrs Oscar, but Hollywod didn't want Tom Hanks to have 3 in a row..politics...lol Anyway as I was saying it's a cute film but NOT for kids.....The "F" word is used a lot.
Little Miss Sunshine 
2008-10-01 - This movie turned out to be a sleeper! It started out slow and I wandered if I hadn't made a mistake. As the movie continued I started laughing and didn't stop till the end. The ending also touched my heart for the underdogs of this world. You didn't know whether to cry or laugh. This is why I purchased this movie. I own very few dvd's. Another good movie I highly recommend is "Secondhand Lions" with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine. This movie is also like "Little Miss Sunshine" in that it will make you laugh and cry.
Little Miss Sunshine
2008-09-15 - Most families will enjoy this because most families aren't mental about making their young daughters look like street women for a beauty contest. I found this movie refreshing and I loved the family. Each member was developed exceptionally well. We see the typical family with it's highs and lows. The underbelly if you will of a realistic family and not some reality show which is more made up than the charaterizations in this movie. I recommend this if you enjoy melodramas. After all what is comedy without some drama? Good quality DVD with minimum extras. Decent replayability. If you enjoyed this catch "Best in Show" and "As Good as it Gets".
CA Luster
Disfunction at its most mediocre 
2008-08-25 - Wow, was this ever a lame movie! It's unbelievable to me that so many people liked it! How is it possible that so many people had a VW bus AND are willing to love a movie on the basis of the vehicle alone? In all honesty, the funniest part of the movie was when they got to CA and the door fell off of the van (and that only got maybe half of a smile).
Perhaps my family wasn't quite disfunctional enough for me to find this terribly amusing, because BOY, it sure wasn't!
Hilarious and heart-broken at the same time. Abigail Breslin's so cute, lovely, and innocently funny. It got 2 Oscars in 2007.
2008-07-26 - It contains good dark humour. It won't appeal to many people. Many scenes made me laugh and broke my heart at the same time. It's not suitable for children because of foul language, dirty jokes, and drug scenes.
**** SPOILER. DO NOT READ THIS if you HAVE NOT WATCHED the MOVIE.
For example, in the scene where the grandpa died in the hospital. The lady in charge of the corpse yelled at Greg Kinnear (the father) when he wanted to pospone the burial. She did not want to listen to his explanation why. It brillantly portraited how cruelly sometimes people treat each other. It moved me.
The next scene is hilarious when it showed the family trying to sneak the corpse into their car to continue their trip to California.
The most moving scene was when Abigail walked to her brother who was extremely depressed and sitting on the ground. She then sat down beside him, saying nothing, just leanning on him.
In the last scene, the director cleverly took aim at child-beauty-pageant industry. My stomach hurt when I saw kids from
5-7 years old in heavy makeup did their catwalk. Adults were exploiting kids for their profit and pleasure!
Abigail Breslin was the best actress here. She's so cute, lovely, and innocently funny. She's naturally beautiful without any makeup. Yes, her dance was meant for adults. But in my opinion, it's acceptable and funny. Why was it okay for adults to exploit kids but it's not okay for kids to dance like adults?
No wonder it got 2 Oscars in 2007. One was given to Michael Arndt for original screenplay. The other was given to Alan Arkin for best supporting actor.
