Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Starring: The best ensemble ever.
Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Country: USA
Genre: Comedy
Not to be confused with the writings of Roger Hargreaves, as I’m pretty confident there wasn’t a character with heroine addiction in the series.
It’s not easy being a dramedy. So few films can balance outrageous comedy with personal character drama and pull it off. If not done properly, this hybrid will end up somewhere not too funny and not too emotional. Little Miss Sunshine handles both extreme ends of the spectrum with so much care that it makes the extravagant humor hysterical and the quiet moments of self-realization heart-breaking. We follow this family of six on a road trip from New Mexico to California to allow their quirky young daughter compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. Little do they know, it’ll be a trip both The Griswolds and Timothy Hutton would(n’t) envy.
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Tags: Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Drama, Dramedy, Dysfunction, Ensemble, Family, Independent, Road Trip
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