Little Miss Sunshine Streaming
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Little Miss Sunshine Streaming.
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If you have ever attended a family reunion or sat down at an extended family holiday dinner and thought to yourself “Who are these people? How could I possibly be related to them?” — then you will probably appreciate the hilarious and poignant indie film “Little Miss Sunshine.”
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Richard (Greg Kinnear) is the head of a mostly dysfunctional family and the author of a multi-step/self-help program that he espouses with the passion of a zealot. Sheryl (Toni Collette) is Richard’s wife and arguably the most normal and high-functioning member of the family. Their son, Dwayne (Paul Dano), is a nihilistic and remote 15-year-old, who has either stopped speaking to his family because he can’t stand them or taken a vow of silence to achieve a personal goal - depending on who is explaining his behavior. Olive (Abigail Breslin) is the family’s bright and effervescent 7-year-old, who is already starting to pick up some of the family’s more unhealthy tics of criticism and self-doubt. Grandpa (Alan Arkin) is Richard’s acerbic and outspoken father who was booted out of his retirement home for snorting heroin. Add to this murky Freudian soup Sheryl’s brother, Frank (a wonderfully restrained Steve Carell), who is newly released from the hospital after a failed suicide attempt.
When a message is left on the family’s phone machine notifying them of Olive’s acceptance into the semi-finals of the Little Miss Sunshine talent competition in California, they decide to (mostly) put aside their personal agendas and take Olive to the pageant. The combustible road trip is fueled by the radically different personalities bumping up against each other within the close confines of a VW bus and exacerbated by a variety of obstacles thrown at them in what seems to be a cosmic conspiracy designed to prevent the family from reaching the competition.
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When the family finally does arrive at the pageant, the weirdness well and truly begins. Now I am someone who really loves a good horror story, but the 6 and 7 year old contestants were far scarier than anything you might see in a George Romero movie. I will take flesh melting zombies over little girls in full theatrical makeup and provocative costumes (that just screamed “JonBenet Ramsey”) any day. The whole pageant atmosphere was Fellini-esque and completely cringe-inducing. When Olive is finally called upon to do her performance piece for the audience (a real show stopper which I won’t spoil by detailing), she is actually the most wholesome and entertaining part of the whole pageant.
Although this family bickers with one another almost constantly, they manage to close ranks and support each other when it truly counts. Part of the pleasure of watching this film was the talented cast, who looked like they were really enjoying themselves. A wonderful way to spend 90 minutes — and you will probably come away with a deeper appreciation of your own family.
“Little Miss Sunshine” is the story of the Hoover Family. Olive (played by the adorable and very funny Abigail Breslin) has just been accepted into the “Little Miss Sunshine” beauty pageant (because of a cancellation) and her family decides to drive through three states so she can make the competition on time. Richard Hoover (played by former Talk Soup host, Greg Kinnear) is Oliver’s dad who believes that winning is number one. When Richard tells poor Olive that she shouldn’t eat ice-cream (because there aren’t any fat Miss America contestants) I thought it was both extremely funny and also equally sad.
Paul Dano played Olive’s (very comical) morbidly hate-filled brother, Dwayne. Alan Arkin played the coke-snorting, sex-crazy grandfather. Toni Collette was the kids’ mom Sheryl; it was obvious that Sheryl was wrapped way too tight but she really did love her family. And rounding out this ensemble cast is Uncle Frank (played by “Forty Year Old Virgin” star Steve Carell.) Frank came to stay with Sheryl and her family after he recently tried to commit suicide after his homosexual love of interest rejected him.
So the family embarks on a car trip across NV, AZ, and CA in a broken down, old 70’s bus (they have to push it to get it started!)
There are so many funny moments in this picture. It was also touching to see Olive put her head on her brother’s shoulder to try to cheer him up, and I did suspect at that moment that Dwayne actually didn’t hate everyone because he seemed so sensitive.
Anyone that watches this picture will certainly agree that Olive’s dance routine was the hit of the entire movie. Olive dances to the tune of the Rick James hit “Super Freak” while prudish Pageant Official Jenkins (played perfectly by one-time “Malcolm In The Middle” star Beth Grant) goes absolutely BERSERK! I don’t want to give anything away, but the entire family was involved, a huge scene resulted, and the police were even called!
After watching the first thirty minutes of this movie I thought to myself, “why are these people all together…” …But I suppose family is whatever you make of it and the Hoover family must have really loved each other to go through all they did and still stay together. Maybe they don’t make the same decisions as the “traditional American family” but that’s ok because they still find their own happiness.
I reluctantly went to go see this movie after a friend told me how good it was. I protested because it looked totally ridiculous but my friend had already seen it and he insisted that it was a superior picture. And I am so glad that I went because this was one of the best movies I have seen in months. It is dysfunction at it’s funniest!
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