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Clay Boss,
Tim Trella,
Matt Taylor,
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Jonathan Dayton,
Valerie Faris,
Jonathan Dayton,
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: 20th Century Fox
: Comedies, Drama, Independent, Black Comedy, Road Movies
: 103 min.
: English, Spanish
: English, Spanish, French
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When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' quirky feature debut, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, and Toni Collette. Despite early career success as an outspoken motivational speaker, family patriarch Richard (Kinnear) continues to cling to his "Refuse to Lose" philosophy, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl (Collette). Add into the mix a Nietzsche-reading teenage son (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence until he finds his fate as a fighter pilot; a horny, heroin-happy grandfather (Alan Arkin) with a penchant for creative profanity; and a suicidal genius (Carell) and Proust scholar still reeling about losing both his male lover and his MacArthur Foundation genius grant -- and the stage is set for a road trip in which sanity is sure to take the back seat. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| What's all the hype?
by HPearson
October 20, 2007 - 8:23 AM PDT
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1 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| I honestly don't know what all the hype is about this movie being SO fabulous. I mean, yeah, it's funny and cute, but....so what? It's so completely unrealistic that I couldn't take the film even slightly seriously. I realize it's meant to be a spoof of our culture and its dysfunctionality, but in the end it just made me feel totally embarrassed for the director. If I'm going to watch a movie about how messed and dysfunctional American families are, I'd rather see a film that treats those aspects in a more insightful way. |
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