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2006 Certificate 15
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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
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
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 Certificate 15
Genres Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Drama
Language DVD: English, English Audio Description
Blu-ray: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles Blu-ray: Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Korean, Thai, French, Portuguese, English
Released DVD: 22 Jan 2007
Blu-ray: 09 Feb 2009
Production year: 2006
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (4) of Little Miss Sunshine

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  • For a movie generated from the Amerindie algorithm of family dysfunction, road-trip catharsis and studied quirk, this... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • Once in a while, a film turns up that has something really special. Little Miss Sunshine is exactly that

    • Sunday Times
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 138 out of 153 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    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.

      • Michaela Hamilton from Co. Durham
      • Posted 11 Sep 2006 16:59

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  • 4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Switch it off!!

    Dull, dull, dull!! Not worth even turning on!! Disappointing, considering the rave reviews!!

      • A customer from ENGLAND
      • Posted 02 Dec 2007 12:24

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