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August 18, 2006
August 18, 2006
20th Century Fox
R (Restricted)
Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Marc Turtletaub, Jill Talley, Brenda Canela, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Chuck Loring, Justin Shilton, Gordon Thomson, Steven Christopher Parker, Bryan Cranston, John Walcutt, Paula Newsome, Dean Norris, Beth Grant, Wallace Langham
"This movie was fantastic and hilarious. Like others, i was a little disappointed by the ending, but i think only by comparison to the alternates also on the disc. But done very well. If you like any of the actors, i would highly recommend. Personally, i am a fan of all of them."
- spawnshop, gave it a 5/5
"I might have given this a two, but I wanted to drag the five star rating down. Better you be surprised than disappointed. I was ready to like this movie until ten minutes before the end. I think the writer's goal was to shock, and it got disgust instead. The goal was laudable, but the execution was badly flawed. Certain cringe humor elements were hackneyed, stale and almost entirely lifted from better movies (National Lampoon's Vacation) A shame too, it had great potential until it was rushed through for cheap laughs in the last 15 minutes. "
- williamjacobs, gave it a 1/5
"An extremely quirky, funny film - not for Adam Sandler fans, but for Napolean Dynamite fans. Fantastic performances by the whole cast! Ended up with an extra copy, in great conditon, NM disc and artwork, both widescreen and full screen formats on one disc."
- WinkJunior, gave it a 5/5
Pile together a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. That formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious study of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for a weekend trek to L.A. in order to get moppet daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Much of the pleasure of this journey comes from watching some skillful comic actors doing their thing: Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as the parents (he's hoping to become a self-help authority), Alan Arkin as a grandfather all too willing to give uproariously inappropriate advice to a sullen teenage grandson (Paul Dano), and a subdued Steve Carell as a jilted gay professor on the verge of suicide. The film is a crowd-pleaser, and if anything is a little too eager to bend itself in the direction of quirk-loving Sundance audiences; it can feel forced. But the breezy momentum and the ingenious actors help push the material over any bumps in the road.-- Robert Horton
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