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Little Miss Sunshine
2006
Little Miss Sunshine is a brazenly satirical and yet deeply human American road comedy. 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 results not only in comic mayhem but in death, transformation and a moving .. Read more
| Starring | Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin |
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| Director | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Drama |
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Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is a brazenly satirical and yet deeply human American road comedy. 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 results not only in comic mayhem but in death, transformation and a moving look at the surprising rewards of being losers in a winning-crazed culture. A runaway hit at the Sundance Film Festival, where it played to standing ovations, the film strikes a nerve with everyone who's ever been awestruck by how their muddled families seem to make it after all.
| Starring | Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin |
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| Director | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Drama |
| Language | English, English Audio Description |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 22 Jan 2007 Blu-ray: 09 Feb 2009 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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Correction: A film review on Wednesday about "Little Miss Sunshine" referred incorrectly to contestants in the fictional children's beauty pageant of the title. The critic intended to compare the... read more »
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137 out of 152 people found this review helpful
Fantastic feel-good film
What an amazing film! The story centres around an unconventional family and their young daughter Olive's entry into the final of a national beauty pageant. The film tracks their 700 mile journey to the pageant in a clapped out camper van.
Each member of the family has their own quirks that make them special and it is the development of the characters along the way that makes this film truly memorable. From the teenage anst ridden older brother inspired to observe a vow of silence by Nietzsche, to the hapless dad who believes that everyone in life can be a 'winner' if only they choose to purchase and follow his hilariously desperate 'nine step' programme - this family is unique, dysfunctional but exude a warmth that is all-enveloping and familiar.
As well as being laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish, 'Little Miss Sunshine' is touching, and even uncomfortable to watch at times, especially when the precocious young beauty queens strut their stuff for the judges in their desperate attempts to emulate the success of seasoned professionals such as 'Miss California'.
It's quite easy to see why this film has reaped such high critical acclaim. If you want to be moved to tears, one minute from laughing and the next from crying, then this is the film for you. -
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14 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Don't be put off by title
What a great little film. I had not expected to enjoy this and ended up loved every minute. Beautiful written, directed and acted. Nothing like I expected, best film I've seen for ages.
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A new trailer for 60's spy comedy spin-off Get Smart with 40 Year Old Virgin and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy star Steve Carell has gone online, according to movie mag Empire. The film, which also stars Ann Hathaway of The Princess Diaries as Agent 99 and Little Miss Sunshine's Alan Arkin as The Chief, follows the endlessly enthusiastic but hopelessly incompetent spy Maxwell Smart as he battles the shadowy evil-doers of KAOS. Peter Segal, who directed The Longest Yard, Anger Management Read more
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