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SUNDANCE 2007
Little Miss Sunshine
"Little Miss Sunshine" by Zack Roddy
Arguably the most popular film to come out of the festival this year, Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
and written by Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Toni Collete, Steve Carrell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin.
The film centers on probably one of the most dysfunctional families ever in a film. There's seven year old Olive (Breslin) a little girl
whose one goal in life is to be the winner of a beauty pageant, her father Richard (Kinnear), a motivational speaker who is growing
more and more disconnected from his family and wife, her mother Sheryl (Collete), who has to take care of her brother, Frank (Carrell),
a suicidal national Proust scholar, her brother Dwayne (Dano), a Nietzsche obsessed fifteen year old who is refusing to speak until he
gets into an Airforce Academy, and Grandpa (Arkin), who frequently snorts heroin. When Olive is accepted as a contestant in the Little
Miss Sunshine beauty pageant for young girls, the family gets in the yellow VW Bus to drive from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach, California.
Misadventure befalls the family, and hilarity follows afterwards.
Despite being absolutely hysterical, which Little Miss Sunshine is, the film is also very touching, and very sweet.
Each member of the star filled cast does an exceptional job, and I could not find one flaw in the film. Obviously, neither did distributors:
Little Miss Sunshine has already been bought for theatrical release, a cool $10 million dollars, an awfully large sum for any other
Sundance film.
But then again, this isn't just any other film.
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