Little Miss Sunshine was much better than last year's Best Picture winner

Rating: 10/10 (25 October 2007)

If I was a member of the Academy and I had to pick Best Picture of the previous year with the choices between Martin Scorsese's The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine, I'd definitely pick the latter. This dysfunctional family road comedy-drama (or dramady) has some of the most realistic-funny dialogue I've watched from recent times. And the performances are all great from Greg Kinnear to Toni Collette to Steve Carell to Oscar nominated Abigail Breslin (what a cute girl!) and, especially, Oscar winner Alan Arkin as the heroin taking grandpa who loves his grandchild and is so hilarious with his salty take on life! Also loved Wallace Langham as the guy who played the music picked by the grandpa (and didn't turn it off when some people got upset) and, nice surprise here, Chloe O'Brien herself, Mary Lynn Rajskub as the lady who accompanies Olive (Abigail's character) to the stage. One of the best independently made movies I've seen in a while!