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Genres:
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Adventure /
Comedy /
Drama
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Actors:
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Julio Oscar Mechoso,
Justin Shilton,
Marc Turtletaub,
Brenda Canela,
Chuck Loring,
Abigail Breslin,
Greg Kinnear,
Paul Dano,
Alan Arkin,
Toni Collette,
Steve Carell,
Jill Talley,
Gordon Thomson,
Steven Christopher Parker,
Bryan Cranston
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)180
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Plot Summary:
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Olive is a little girl with a fancy: charming the Brief Miss Sunshine dispute. Her family wants her dream to come be fulfilled, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can scarcely put together it under the aegis a day without some trouble befalling them. Olive's inventor Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Olive's uncle Frank, a renowned Proust professor, has attempted suicide following an sterile epic with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has take... n a vow of silence, which allows him to recreation somewhat from the one's nearest whose very propinquity torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-sedately with a drug raiment, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her predisposition trite. Circumstances conspire to deflate the entire family on the course together with the aspiration of getting Olive to the Teeny Misunderstand Sunshine oppose 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.
Little Miss Sunshine
Claudia PuigThere 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 trek of 1996's quirky Flirting with Disaster. Its wit is leavened by physical humor that borders on th...
Little Miss Sunshine
Carina Chocano"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 course of three harrowing days on a road trip, reluctantly embarked on so that their daughter may compete...
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