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 little miss sunshine
Bright as you like. The dysfunctional family road movie is a fraught journey – one wrong turn and you end up in Cliché, USA. As the eccentric Hoover clan set off for young Olive’s dream of a Californian kids’ beauty pageant, credit writer Michael Arndt, debut directors (and ex-music video whizzes) Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and a superb ensemble cast including Steve Carell and Toni Collette for not just keeping this caustic, bittersweet gem right on track, but reaching a conclusion as surprising as it is poignant. Little Miss Sunshine, on selected release 08 September 06.
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comment by Rhys Tranter
Jan 19, 2007
hits the spot.
comment by rowan
Oct 5, 2006
I watched Little Miss Sunshine last night and thought it was the funniest and sweetest film that I've seen in ages, certainly the best I've seen this year so far. The narrative's fairly straightforward, family go on road trip to help the daughter's dream of being in a beauty pagant, but it's the details and quirks of the characters, the perfectly pitched acting and unfaultering script which really make it. Somehow I became so engrossed in the characters that I didn't see any of the inevitable twists as they loomed large on the road ahead either.
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