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.

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.

i love this movie and my favourite piece of imdb trivia about it is: "While filming in a convenience store in Santa Clarita, CA a Paul Dano look-a-like walked in. Dano was late and unaccounted for so everyone thought the look-a-like was Dano. After he explained that he was not Dano, they took some pictures and sent him on his way."

Your family sucks or rocks?

This story is about… yes, family, and how they are the only ones that give a fuck about you.

Yes, family can suck big time sometimes, but your brother will always be your brother, uncles and parents. Reality doesn’t care a fucking shit about you, but those people that you call family, (core family only I guess) yes… even if you are a fucking freak or just annoying as fuck.
The film, well, is hilarious, and that old van represents the state of their relations: annoying, doesn’t work very well, but at least can go somewhere and can put all of them in one direction.

After this film, you might wonder about you and your family, and how the reality sucks big time…

If you are fortunate to have those people, you can’t complain too much, and if you do: Shut the fuck up!

Little Miss Sunshine both dramatizes and exactly captures what family is like. It has some of the funniest moments I have ever seen, yet is also completely heartbreaking in a pathetic, relatable, human way which not many movies can achieve. The characters are charming and absolutely hopeless people that feel just so goddamn real. This one will always be one of my favorites.

A lot better than I thought it would be, and I had high expectations. Michael Ardnt's script is absolutely brilliant and the performances all around carries Little Miss Sunshine to great heights.

One of the most powerful films I've seen to this day. Little Miss Sunshine perfectly encapsulates the beauty of love and forgiveness within a family unit. I go back to this film every few years and each time I learn something new. A stunning masterpiece.

Took me a few years before I finally saw this. I have to say that I was thoroughly surprised in all the right ways. More ice cream please.

little abigail breslin was indeed a ray of sunshine

Sooo good