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Plot. Sheryl Hoover is a mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her gay brother, Frank, a scholar of Proust, is living with the family after having attempted suicide. Sheryl's husband Richard is a motivational speaker and life coach.
Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them.
Aug 18, 2006 · Little Miss Sunshine: Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. With Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin. A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is a 2006 drama-comedy that follows the lives of the dysfunctional Hoover family as they take a road trip from Albuquerque to participate in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California.
Aug 3, 2006 · A gentle family satire and a classic American road movie, "Little Miss Sunshine" harks back to the anti-establishment, countercultural comedies of the 1970s such as "Smile" or "Harold and Maude" -- satirical fairy tales that preached the virtues of nonconformity over the superficiality of conventional American values.
Synopsis The Hoover family -- a man (Greg Kinnear), his wife (Toni Collette), an uncle (Steve Carell), a brother (Paul Dano) and a grandfather (Alan Arkin) -- puts the fun back in dysfunctional...
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
