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Moviola > Films > Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine (15) 101 mins"Where's Olive?" When a fluke qualifies 7-year-old bespectacled Olive to enter the fiercely competitive "Little Miss Sunshine" contest in California, her whole family rallies behind her: her father Richard (Greg Kinnear), a hopelessly optimistic motivational speaker, her "pro-honesty" mother Sheryl (the wonderful Toni Collette), her uncle, a suicidal Proust scholar fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his gay lover, her brother Dwayne, an anger-fuelled, Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a staunch vow of silence until he gets into the Air Force Academy, and finally her grandfather (Alan Arkin), a foul-mouthed pleasure-seeker recently kicked out of his retirement home for snorting heroin. They pile into their rusty VW bus and head West on a three-day tragicomic journey filled with madcap surprises and leading up to Olive's big debut - which will change the entire misfit family in ways they could never imagine. A runaway hit at the Sundance Film Festival, where it played to standing ovations, the film strikes a nerve with everyone who's ever been awestruck by how their muddled families seem to make it after all. "A little jewel of a film . . . that is refreshingly original and uproariously funny. Contrary to its title, Little Miss Sunshine is a dark comedy, one with a tender heart and offbeat sensibility." Tiscali UK "A small gem."
James Berardinelli
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