Smile With Tears

Rating: 8/10 (10 February 2007)

I sincerely wish Little Miss Sunshine could win the Oscar, though it is not likely. Beneath a comedy overtone, the fact is quite sad.Richard(Greg Kinnear), Dad, is a motivational speaker, who never tastes the sweet smell of the success himself, Sheryl(Toni Collette), Mom, provides the Kentucky fried chicken as dinner, whose brother Frank (Steve Carrel ) just joins them, after a suicidal attempt because of being dumped by his boyfriend. Grandpa (Alan Arkin) try to be a libertine before death. Teenage son Dwayne (Paul Dyno) who takes a vow of silence is a admirer of Nietzsche. He hates everyone. And last , eager to win the title of the movie title, is seven-year Olive (Abigail Breslin), who is exactly a little miss sunshine. Even so, she already starts to be afraid of becoming a loser. Yeah, she knows this word, and she knows her father is a big loser. Sad, very sad. They are a family of losers. When his dream to be a pilot broken ,Dwayne breaks his vow,and what he says is quite right. Life is a beauty contest, you accepts the criterion imposed by outer-world, you prostitute yourself, you lose yourself, you are a phony! Like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye always says, phony. Yes, there are two kinds of people, winners and losers, but who can judge us, who has the right, this is the question.