![]() ![]() During the final leg of the trip, Dwayne discovers that he is color blind, meaning he cannot become a pilot. Edwin dies from a heroin overdose, and the family has to smuggle his body out of the hospital, almost getting caught by the police. Frank encounters the ex-boyfriend who, in leaving him for an academic rival, had prompted his suicide attempt. Richard loses an important contract that would have jump-started his motivational business. Throughout the trip, the family suffers numerous personal setbacks and discovers their need for each other's support. Later on, the van's horn starts honking unceasingly by itself, which leads to the family being pulled over by a state trooper.Ī Volkswagen T2 Microbus, similar to the one in the film When the van breaks down early on, the family learns that they must push the van until it is moving at about 20 mph (32 km/h) before it is put into gear, at which point they have to run up to the side door and jump in. Family tensions play out along the way, amidst the aging van's mechanical problems. Because they have little money, they go on an 800-mile (1,300 km) road trip in their yellow Volkswagen van. Richard, Sheryl, and Edwin want to support her, and Frank and Dwayne cannot be left alone, so the whole family goes. Olive learns she has qualified for the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant, being held in Redondo Beach, California, in two days. Olive, the daughter of Richard and Sheryl and the youngest of the Hoover family, is an aspiring beauty queen who is coached by Edwin. Richard's foul-mouthed father, Edwin, lives with the family after being evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin. Dwayne, Sheryl's Nietzsche-reading teenage son from a previous marriage, has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a fighter pilot. Sheryl's husband Richard is striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. ![]() ![]() Her gay brother, Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with the family after having attempted suicide. Sheryl Hoover is an overworked mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. It also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and received numerous other accolades. Arndt and Arkin won Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, and Breslin was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. The film garnered four nominations at the 79th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Little Miss Sunshine was a box office success, earning $101 million, and was praised mainly for the performances (particularly towards Breslin and Arkin), direction, screenplay and humor. The film had a limited release in the United States on July 26, 2006, and expanded to a wider release starting on August 18. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006, and its distribution rights were bought by Fox Searchlight Pictures for one of the biggest deals made in the history of the festival. Filming began on June 6, 2005, and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California. It was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, all of whom play members of a dysfunctional family taking the youngest (Breslin) to compete in a child beauty pageant. Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American tragicomedy road movie directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (in their directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Michael Arndt. ![]()
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