No shadows

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2006)

This movie about a dysfunctional family is more of a satire than a comedy. It's about the father, totally fooled by the dream of the American Dream, his son who refuses to talk after reading too much Nietzche, the grandfather who's on drugs and so on.
But most of all it's about the daughter, entering a beauty contest for seven-year-olds. It becomes a road movie and sometimes it's close to the common feel good stuff. But the darkness is always there...in comedy shape.
This is a really nasty narration about some parts of American mentality, but with quite many laughs. Screwball satire.