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Little miss sunshine
By anyone's standards, the Hoover family consists of some decidedly odd characters. There's Richard (Greg Kinnear), a motivational speaker whose career downslide is starting to give the lie to his own philosophy; his wife Sheryl (Toni Collette), who's losing patience with both his crisis and their marriage; their teenage son Dwayne, who worships Nietzsche and has taken a vow of silence until he's old enough to become a fighter pilot; Sheryl's brother Frank (Steve Carell), a Proust scholar who lost a MacArthur grant and his lover but failed in his attempt to lose his life; Grandpa (Alan Arkin), who's been kicked out of his nursing home for snorting heroin; and Olive (Abigail Breslin), Richard and Sheryl's seven- year-old daughter, who isn't going to let a little weight problem get in the way of her winning the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. She's been rehearsing her talent programmed with Grandpa and seems sure to win, so the family hops into a VW bus and drives Olive to the pageant for a chance to fulfil her dreams.

I enjoyed the fact the film was very random, different set back constantly happened which made the film funny and interesting. There was not anything I did not really enjoy about this film. However, there was nothing really in the film that I would use as a stimulus as it does not go with the theme I am thinking of doing, but If I was going to do a comedy music video; then the idea of the van having to be pushed constantly to start could be a good stimulus to use in a music video.


I would recommend this film to someone who enjoys comedy, as it’s not really suitable for children due to a lot of adult humour and some inappropriate scenes, for an older audience (15-40) I think it would be a great comedy to watch.

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