Grizzled grandpa coaches 9 year old granddaughter for pageant

Rating: 1/10 (2 September 2006)

A film about a family, but not a family film. I went to see it because the Little Miss Sunshine Pageant was supposed to be in Redondo Beach, California, and I once lived in Redondo Beach. Thought I might see some my old haunts. That's my excuse.
I surely had a bad taste in my mouth after seeing the little girl's "talent" performance coached by the salacious, tourettes tendencied, now thankfully dead (overdosed on heroin), dirty old grandpa-man who, evidently completely unsupervised and behind closed doors in the basement, teaches the adorable 9 year old Abigail to do a striptease/bump and grind for her beauty pageant performance. Remembering back to some of his early comments and advice to the men in the party, I did not want to think about whatever else he might have been introducing to his innocent granddaughter.
Anyway, my hopes for this "road" movie, with its outstanding ensemble cast, were busted.
1 out of 10 for this dreary, hopeless, grimy little film.