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Little Miss Sunshine | 
| Directors: Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
Actors: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  518 reviews
Sales Rank: 459
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.4
MPN: FOXD2240339D
UPC: 024543403319
EAN: 0024543403319
ASIN: B000K7VHQE
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 2006
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Pile together a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. That formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious study of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for a weekend trek to L.A. in order to get moppet daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Much of the pleasure of this journey comes from watching some skillful comic actors doing their thing: Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as the parents (he's hoping to become a self-help authority), Alan Arkin as a grandfather all too willing to give uproariously inappropriate advice to a sullen teenage grandson (Paul Dano), and a subdued Steve Carell as a jilted gay professor on the verge of suicide. The film is a crowd-pleaser, and if anything is a little too eager to bend itself in the direction of quirk-loving Sundance audiences; it can feel forced. But the breezy momentum and the ingenious actors help push the material over any bumps in the road.-- Robert Horton
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Product Description
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their vw bus. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Greg Kinnear Alan Arkin Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R
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 Wonderful January 9, 2009
Latour07 (Paris, France)
What a wonderful comedy ! An american coemedy, piece of a true culture, your culture. Exceptionnal. The words lack me to describe the truth of such a film. In such films, the American culture expresses its originality. I am looking forward to viewing other films of such quality and thank the persons who would give me advice.
dvd review December 24, 2008
Rheadawn Brown (Smyrna, TN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this movie. I have recommended Little Miss Sunshine to every person I know. You will see your own family in this dramatic comedy. Steve Carell and Abigail Breslin---AWESOME--as well as the rest of the cast.
Modern Hollywood can't make a 5 star comedy - UNTIL NOW December 22, 2008
D. Garcia (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought it couldn't be done. This is not the era of Lloyd, or Fields or Laurel and Hardy. It's not the era of Capra or Preston. 99% of modern comedies suck badly, and or are mean spirited.
But miracle of miracles, someone current, finally made an hilarious movie with a heart as big as "You Can't Take it With You!"
Credit here goes not to the very good cast but stunningly to the writer/directors: Michael Arndt - Screenwriter, co directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris.
Brilliant, and wise. Not just a movie about dysfunctional, it's a movie where looser are shown to be the winners they really are, just for surviving, like all of us. Not a moment of saccharine either. It sharp and intelligent.
Beautiful, beautiful movie from beginning to end, and what an ending!
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