Miss Sunshine is anything BUT a LITTLE film.

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 2006)

Possibly the years best film, Little Miss Sunshine is in the league of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Squid and the Whale, all films about dis-functionality in the household of the middle American class. Little Miss Sunshine, a motion picture debut by music video veterans Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris hits home more than the other two films mentioned. Lacking the unnecessary and aberrant anomalies that are added in some dysfunctional family films, Sunshine focuses on the habitual and conventional problems a family might and does have. WIth the exception of one scene that does not hold up to the sincerity of the rest of the film Sunshine goes above and beyond the call. With an outstanding ensemble cast, each having a completely different take on family life, writer Michael Arndt turns in an almost flawless screenplay of dialog. Beautifully shot across rural America, with beautiful colors embracing the screen, this is the quintessential Middle Class American film.