When Seven year old Olive hears that she has qualified for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, she is determined to attend. Her family can’t afford to fly and her mother Sheryl (Toni Collette) can’t drive a manual car. So it is up to father Richard (Greg Kinnear, As Good as It Gets) to drive the whole family from Albuquerque to California for the pageant.
Accompanying them on the road trip are Olive’s cocaine snorting Grandpa (Alan Arkin) Brother Dwayne who’s ambitions to be a fighter pilot and love of Nietzsche have led him to take a vow of silence and homosexual Marcel Proust scholar uncle Frank (Steve Carell) who has just failed in a suicide attempt.
Former music video directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris make a great job of their debut feature film. Little Miss Sunshine manages to excellently balance heart felt family turmoil and jet black humour, which sets the audience up brilliantly for the final scenes. Reminiscent of some of Woody Allen’s more recent films it is easy to see why Little Miss Sunshine was such a hit at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
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