Little Miss Sunshine

1 more product image	Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Starring: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano 20th Century Fox, 2006, DVD Customer Rating: 544 reviews   Recommend List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $4.50 (Price details) You Save: $10.48 (70%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days. Ships from and sold by Stuff U Want. Click to see all 10 offers available

Take a hilarious ride with the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families in comedy history.

Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program...with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers?the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behavior recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her?with riotously funny results.

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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Title: Little Miss Sunshine
Sales Rank: 1298 in DVD
Actor: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Studio: 20th Century Fox, 2006-12-19, Theatrical Release: 2006-08-18
Format: Subtitled, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 2.35:1
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Published)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 101 minutes
Item Dimensions: 0.2 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches, 0.1 pounds

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