One Of The Funniest Films Shown In Theaters In Years

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2012)

A dysfunctional family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross country trip in their Volkswagen bus in this movie,Little Miss Sunshine.It stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin.It was directed by the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive 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.Despite early career success as an outspoken motivational speaker, family patriarch Richard continues to cling to his "Refuse to Lose" philosophy, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl. Add into the mix a Nietzsche-reading teenage son, who has taken a vow of silence until he finds his fate as a fighter pilot.A horny, heroin-happy grandfather with a penchant for creative profanity; and a suicidal genius 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.
This is one of the funniest and most gracefully written, acted and directed dysfunctional-American-family farce road trip comedy that satirizes the Americans' win-win culture.Credit must go to the ensemble cast and the delightfully funny script, which first-time directors handled perfectly.You get this hilarious but moving satire about a dysfunctional family obsessed with winning. Charming, moving, warm and brilliantly hysterical, it is easily the funniest thing the viewer would have seen in a theater in many years.