Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Olive's uncle Fran... k, a renowned Proust scholar, has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence, which allows him to escape somewhat from the family whose very presence torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-well with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in far off California.
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Not so bright, it hurts my eyes
A failing family come together for the youngest member so that she can enter the Little Miss Sunshine contest. I have heard great things about this movie and a few bad ones, but for me personally I didn't see anything special about it. It was basic story-telling and a sad reflection of that. Yes it was not a run of the mill Hollywood movie, no action, no animation, no special effects, but it also has no real story either. The acting from the Grandad was the best bit in the film, other than that it wasn't amazing, or brilliant. It actually reminded me of a ITV drama. Only watch if you have nothing better to do.
There is nothing inherently sunny about Little Miss Sunshine, and that's part of the fresh and clever lunacy of this deliciously dark comedy.
Most of the humor comes out of the sharply written script and arises naturally from the actions and motivations of the offbeat characters, as opposed to the forced hilarity and formulaic tendencies of the bigger-budgeted summer comedies. Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton and screenwriter Michael Arndt have fashioned a hilarious screwball comedy in the tradition of Frank Capra films, with a contemporary dark quality.
A big hit on the film-festival circuit, Sunshine recalls the zany cross-country tr...
"When all professions are open to all, and when one can reach the summit of each of them by oneself," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about American democracy in the 1830s, foreshadowing the massive crisis in status anxiety that would eventually compel us to buy Hummers and use phrases like "new paradigm" with a straight face, "an immense and easy course seems to open before the ambition of men, and they willingly fancy that they have been called to great destinies. But that is an erroneous view corrected by experience every day."
In Little Miss Sunshine, an ordinary, middle-class family has erroneous views corrected by experience the hard way. Over the cours...
all you people love this film? unbelievable. haha... gotcha so do i. it's so simple, but yet so lovable. you cannot hate this film, it's fun for the whole family. 3 of 4 stars very good.
"Little Miss Sunshine" is a emotionally captivating story that has many emotional shifts. This film is cute,funny,sad,moving,deppresing,and uplifting at the same time. Very good movie; definitely worth a watch.
i am sorry to contradict everyone but i did not like the ending the whole movie you are waiting for so many things to happen and it doesn't none of the endings that you imagine for any of the characters happen. instead the credits role out and you're thinking are you freaking kidding me? i will say the movie was great, it just got you into characters that you could really understand but it just does not deliver it's punch line.
