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.
"A family on the verge of a breakdown."
Top Billed Cast
Greg Kinnear
Richard Hoover
Toni Collette
Sheryl Hoover
Steve Carell
Frank Ginsberg
Paul Dano
Dwayne Hoover
Abigail Breslin
Olive Hoover
Alan Arkin
Edwin Hoover
Bryan Cranston
Stan Grossman
Beth Grant
Nancy Jenkins
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
Z zombieakacrisVerified TMDB Critic
2019-11-17
"Fuck a lot of woman kid, I have no reason to lie, not just one. A lot of women."
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.
Review:
Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 dramatic comedy that delivers all around. With solid cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carrell an oscar winning performance by Allan Arkin and Bryan Cranston and Dean Norris in Albuquerque pre Breaking Bad and a great script Little Miss Sunshine is a film that I missed when it first...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-03-14
Alan Arkin might have got the Oscar but it's Greg Kinnear who steals this for me. Talk about a pain in the proverbial! He is "Richard", a rather pompously self-motivated man who is trying to sell his nine point plan for success to "Grossmann" (a fleeting appearance from Bryan Cranston). Meantime, his young daughter "Olive" (Abigail Breslin) is continually practising for the eponymous pageant under the aegis of her foul-mouthed, cocaine-snorting, grandfather (Arkin) and beside her whacky brother "Dwayne" (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence and hates everyone and everything. He just wants...
