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Little Miss Sunshine
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
2006 · Directed by Valerie Faris · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · 15 frames
Tagline
A family on the verge of a breakdown.
Crew
- Written by: Michael Arndt
- Cinematography: Tim Suhrstedt
- Edited by: Pamela Martin
- Music: DeVotchKa, Mychael Danna
- Production design: Kalina Ivanov
- Produced by: Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Marc Turtletaub, Ron Yerxa
Cast
- Greg Kinnear as Richard Hoover
- Toni Collette as Sheryl Hoover
- Steve Carell as Frank Ginsberg
- Paul Dano as Dwayne Hoover
- Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover
- Alan Arkin as Edwin Hoover
- Bryan Cranston as Stan Grossman
- Beth Grant as Nancy Jenkins
- Wallace Langham as Kirby
- Matt Winston as Pageant MC
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Big Beach, Bona Fide Productions
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $100,523,351
- Themes: california, husband wife relationship, sibling relationship, literature professor, family's daily life, highway, beauty contest, beauty queen contest, dysfunctional family, road trip
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