Little Miss Sunshine is the Shining of 2006

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2008)

This movie made me laugh. Almost every laughed during this movie. This movie's dry humor can just whip a smile on that face. The little girl, whose dream is to be the next little miss sunshine is Olive Hoover. Ambitious, funny, loyal, and clueless. Her mother, Sheryl, a smoker who smokes secretly on the ride home from work is troubled, because her life is going nowhere. Dwayne, an emo pre-army rat, disciplines himself by taking a bow of silence. Richard Hoover, the dad, another ambitious man, who hopes for the best, is optimistic, and cares about something, and makes his obsession first, over his dying family. Then there's Grandpa who is a strong cocaine, drug addict who teaches his granddaughter some nasty tricks for dancing. Then Mr. Steve Carell who is Frank Ginsberg, a gay, suicidal man, whose love can make him incredibly happy, and can tear his heart and force him to put a bullet to his head. This dying family decide to go to the Little Miss Sunshine contest, for little Olive, who was invited there. Okay. They go to the contest in a van. You'd expect a funny movie. Hopefully you'd laugh. I did. Watch this movie and see for yourself why it was nominated for Best Picture.