Little Miss Sunshine
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.
July 26, 2006 · Directed by Valerie Faris
What's been said
Viewers and critics embraced Little Miss Sunshine warmly and broadly, with the film earning four Oscar nominations including Best Picture and pulling in nearly $60 million at the box office after its record-setting Sundance acquisition. The ensemble cast drew near-universal praise, with critics and audiences alike singling out the performances across the board as the film's greatest strength, Roger Ebert writing that you "just won't see a better acted, and better cast" movie. The most consistent knock came from detractors who felt the film leaned on a familiar and formulaic Sundance-quirk template, with some critics arguing the characters were written as predictably eccentric in an "indie-comedy way" and that certain subplots were resolved too quickly or facilely. A notable detail: the film was purchased at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival for a then-record $10.5 million, and its beauty pageant finale became one of the most talked-about crowd-pleasing sequences of that year.
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