A bittersweet ray of sunshine caught in a yellow van filled with actors who have rarely been better.

It also has one of the best dance routines ever put to film.

There's a lot more to say about this film, but in the end it will always boil down to this:

Watch it, embrace it, love it.

And that I did.

You know what? Fuck beauty contests.
-Dwayne

The 2006 indie darling not only holds up 7 years later but is probably better then most comedies coming out today. It's a deceivingly colorful, lighthearted black comedy that takes an honest approach on how families that have already had "life experiences" deal with attempted suicide, drug use, depression and individual delusionment.

The cast couldn't have possibly been better across the board with Alan Arkin and Steve Carell possibly stealing the show. Arkin is able to give the loud attention stealing performance as the crazy yet brutally honest grand father while Carell gives a surprising great nuanced performance as a suicidal gay scholar.

At the center of it all of course you have 10 year old Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover who is the personification of young innocence. The manner they take the piss out of beauty pageants at the end of this film is simply brilliant.

I love paul dano?????

Scavenger Hunt 15 – June 2016
Task # 18: A film featuring a dysfunctional family

This movie has me lost for words no doubt because this is what I consider is the best comedy I had ever seen and impossible for this film to do any wrong. This such a heart melting movie from begin to end where the meaning of a family dysfunction has a new label with the Hoover family. Now preferable I usually enjoy dark comedies( which is a very limited genre), but this has possibly changed my perspective with a 360-degree turn. I don't know I think this film executed the connection between the characters and the audience perfectly with Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Paul Dano stealing the show with the superb acting. A movie to rewatch where the jokes still will hit you hard with a gutbuster.

Love everything about it. Great ensemble. Fabulous screenplay. Surprising actings. Interesting. Sad. Funny. A tragicomedic spectacle.

"You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. You know, school, then college, then work, fuck that. And fuck the air force academy. If I wanna fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest." Dwayne

Very wonderful. Sunshine is the right word to describe this movie.

Equal parts charming, funny, heart warming and sweet. I can't believe I avoided this for so long. Carell, Breslin, Dano and Arkin were amazing.

I was under the impression that this was some shitty family comedy. I couldn't be more wrong. An incredibly touching and funny road trip film that goes to some really dark places at times.

LOVED IT.

I love paul dano?????

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

A wonderful film with drama, angst, laughter, personal issues, flawed characters but most importantly: heart.

America :/

who i was before watching this movie? no one is the right answer, NO ONE.