Sun Shines on Little Miss Sunshine

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2007)

Wonderful surprise. A family is held together by anguish, angst, and ages. None of them like each other ... one hates all people. Then there is Olive, played perfectly by little miss sunshine, Abigail Breslin. If it wasn't for her this movie would be just depressing. Thus the title of the movie.
Olive is the star of this movie. She is an utterly plane girl who is able to show her family by her ways (i.e. Ms. Breslin's acting) that the sun shines from within - not from without. She wants to compete in the beauty pageant "Little Miss Sunshine." She is allowed to enter and yet the family can't afford to send her with Mom. So they all decide to go for a drive ... from New Mexico. So up loads the family into the VW bus: Dad, Mom, grumpy old grandpa, uncle, older brother, and Olive. 9/10
Ms. Abigail Breslin as "Olive" - perfect perfect perfect
Mr. Greg Kinnear as "Richard" (Dad) - he CAN act! and well too!
Mr. Paul Dano as "Dwayne" (older brother)
Mr. Alan Arkin as "Grandpa"
Ms. Toni Collette as "Sheryl" (Mom)
Mr. Steve Carell as "Frank" (uncle) - such a performance should get him an Oscar nod for this one.
-LD
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