Little Miss Sunshine

Release Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Michael Arndt, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Jonathan Dayton, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Valerie Faris, Michael Beugg, David Friendly, Jeb Brody, Erik David

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

R Comedy 1 hr, 41 m

  • 4.8

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

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Plot
The Hoover family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself. On their travels through this bizarre landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.
Comedy

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The film's director Jonathan Dayton last directed Battle of the Sexes and Ruby Sparks. The film's writer Michael Arndt last wrote The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe.

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Producers
Michael Beugg
Jeb Brody
David Friendly

Additional Information

MPA Rating
R Restricted for language, some sex and drug content
Runtime
1 hr, 41 m
Tagline
Where's Olive?
Also known as
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Language
English

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Little Miss Sunshine was released in on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 .



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Mon., Dec. 22, 2008

  • Added the soundtrack release date of July 11, 2006

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