Little Miss Sunshine
Movies & TV / DVD
Movies/TV › Feature Film Comedy
UPC: 024543403319 / Publisher: Fox Searchlight, November 2010
Despite their individual problems and disappointments, the Hoovers decide to support young daughter Olive's dream of competing in a California beauty pageant.
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Father Richard (Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program...with no success. Pro-honesty mom Sheryl (Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behavior recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her - with riotously funny results.
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