Great Heart-warming movie

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2006)

Although containing profanity, portraying family dysfunction and surfacing symptoms of fallen human nature, love comes through in the midst of harsh realities. My laughters at Olive's dancing moves turned into sobs until the movie ended. There is nothing more precious than a pure trusting heart of a seven-year old girl. She performed her "routines" with such dedication to "my grandfather who taught me the moves", completely unaware of the meanings interpreted by the audience. The love that may have been hidden but strongly weaves underneath all dysfunction carried Olive through the performance.
The irony was that displays of sexuality by other contestants, which are much more explicit because those girls know what they were doing, were deemed acceptable by the beauty pageant.
I greatly recommend this movie as a must see!