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Little Miss Sunshine

2006

Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear ...

7.6

110,118

Comedy. Drama Meet the conflictive Hoover family: a grandfather who snorts coke and swears, the father, a struggling motivational speaker, a mother who can't cope, an uncle recovering from a failed suicide attempt after being dumped by his boyfriend, a Nietzsche-worshipping son who has taken a vow of silence and little Olive, the four-eyed, slightly pudgy youngster of the bunch who dreams of being beautiful. When luck has Olive invited to participate ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[A] satirical fairy tales that preached the virtues of nonconformity over the superficiality of conventional American values (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"No wonder this Little Miss was loved at Sundance. It’s 'National Lampoon’s Family Vacation' with soul (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"Pic’s distinguished by a flawless cast, a gentle spirit of rebellion and a smart script (...) Gracefully sidestepping all the usual traps of too-cute screen tykes, Breslin is a delight"	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"This sparkling little gem takes the family road movie to unhoped-for heights of hilarity and humanity (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Family is everything is (...) It's the moral here, and there's nothing so very wrong with that, other than this essentially conservative picture had dressed itself up as something a lot more daring (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"A hilarious screwball comedy in the tradition of Frank Capra films, with a contemporary dark quality (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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