Little Miss Sunshine R
A family on the verge of a breakdown
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 21, 2009
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Greg Kinnear & Toni Collette | |
Performer: | Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin & Paul Dano | |
Directed by | Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris | |
Edited by | Pamela Martin | |
Music by | Susan Jacobs | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Arndt | |
Composition by | Mychael Danna | |
Produced by | Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa | |
Director of Photography: | Tim Suhrstedt |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2006 -
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt
Academy Awards 2006 -
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/6 --
All indie-movie families may start out unhappy in their own way, but by the time the final credits roll, everyone remains complacent, confident of their brood's superiority.
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Time Out
... this isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it deftly dramatizes our conflicting desires for individuality and an audience to applaud it.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
Little Miss Sunshine is one of the film festival gems that is just as smart and funny so many years later.
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Solzy at the Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
This is a likeable, funny road movie about a dysfunctional family, but you know you've been down the same road before.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 3/4 --
... a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/4 --
Like a little ray of sunshine in a world of bland, boring, reheated movies that clog up the arteries of our nation's theaters.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
3 stars out of 4 -- [S]omething wonderful: a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Picked up after a well-received showing at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is a low-budget comedy about a family road trip from Albuquerque to California. The story begins when young Olive (Abigail Breslin) is given a shot at the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, and manages to coerce her family into driving west in their worn-down VW van. Olive's father, Richard (Greg Kinnear), takes charge of the trip, while her mother, Sheryl (Toni Collette), brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), uncle Frank (Steve Carell), and eccentric grandfather (Alan Arkin) all come along for the ride. What follows resembles a budget-stricken version of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES: seemingly endless (and hilarious) mishaps befall the family as they wind their way across the country. Couple this with the witty interplay between a well-drawn set of dysfunctional characters, and that's the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE formula in a nutshell; all the audience needs to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
The grainy texture of co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's film may initially startle viewers unaccustomed to the indie film world. But its a testament to the cast and crew's efforts that the limitations imposed on the filmmakers are long forgotten by the end of the film. Any concerns about visual murkiness give way to belly laughs and bemusement as the road trip ends and the beauty pageant begins. Likely to have a broad appeal, Dayton and Faris's film resembles a version of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION directed with the pithy eye of Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), and it's to the movie's credit that it manages to successfully marry these two seemingly disparate worlds.
The grainy texture of co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's film may initially startle viewers unaccustomed to the indie film world. But its a testament to the cast and crew's efforts that the limitations imposed on the filmmakers are long forgotten by the end of the film. Any concerns about visual murkiness give way to belly laughs and bemusement as the road trip ends and the beauty pageant begins. Likely to have a broad appeal, Dayton and Faris's film resembles a version of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION directed with the pithy eye of Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), and it's to the movie's credit that it manages to successfully marry these two seemingly disparate worlds.
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