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Watch: Little Miss Sunshine 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl’s husband Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne’s grandfather Edwin was sent away from the institution for elders (Sunset Manor) and is addicted in heroin. When her seven-year-old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream come true..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.8/10 Votes: 480,854
	91% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 6005 Popularity: 19.808 | TMDB

Reviews:

delivers in the most charmingly sweet, pure, honest, and innocent way
It would be unfair to limit the film to one adjective. But charming is the first one that comes to mind. I really don’t know how they did it, but the screenwriter Michael Arndt and directing team Dayton/Faris (Jonathan and Valerie, that is) have managed to create a movie in which we are simply so connected to the characters it’s frightening. This is a very quirky bunch, and while their traits can be found in everyone we know, they are certainly extremely weird and I certainly don’t know any families who are quite as odd as the Hoovers. And yet, we forge such a strong bond with each and every one of them, right from the opening pre-title introduction sequence – probably the best character introduction sequence I’ve seen since Magnolia. These people are just so real! It’s unbelievable just how three-dimensional these characters are. They remind me of The Squid and the Whale – another recent movie that comes to mind when I think of this type of character development – these are just normal, regular people, and the filmmakers developed them as such in the most in-depth, well thought-out and just ingenious way possible.

That brings me to the second adjective: Realism. If you’ve seen the film you know that some pretty wacky things go on in it, but in the end, these people are just plain real. They are real human beings – at least we the viewing audience come to believe. If they weren’t so incredibly well thought out and detailed and rounded, we wouldn’t forge such a strong bond with them. But fact of the matter is, the Hoovers have quickly become one of the most memorable cinematic families. Their traits. Their flaws. Their dreams and ambitions. Their dynamics, mannerisms, nuances. Every tiny little detail about these people is just so incredibly portrayed.

Obviously, it would be unfair to say that a comedy isn’t funny. When Little Miss Sunshine gets funny, it’s hilarious – we’re talking pitch-black dark and very quirky comedy, but it works admirably, reaching sort of a peak in the infamous, hilarious and totally wacky traffic cop scene.

The acting is. Simply put, amazing. You won’t see any Oscar moments here, no characters that have some particular traits that require various forms of “method acting” to perform. This is simply actors playing a bunch of people who they are clearly quite unlike, but playing them as if they are. The shining star is young Abigail Breslin, who out-acts pretty much all of her older cast-mates. How she can embody a completely other character at such a young age is completely beyond me – and she’s been doing it since age 6! Dakota Fanning, watch out! Paul Dano, the other young actor, also delivers an amazing performance. Myself being fresh out of that period of my life, I can say that his portrayal of a frustrated teenager – specifically in the scene where he just explodes (those who have seen the movie will know what I’m talking about) is just so true and realistic. Arkin is brilliant as the old grandfather, who is at once quite annoying and vulgar and at once the most human of all the characters. The three adult leads also deliver wonderful, nuanced performances – Toni Colette, who has quite a streak of wonderful performances in various films, particularly impressed me.

But what makes the film so special is its message – and even more so, how it delivers it. Basically, the film’s message can be summed up in one brilliant line delivered by Arkin’s character, Grandpa Edwin: “A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try.” This is a family who see tragedy after failure after disappointment, and it’s just so, so sad to see them so down, because we love them all and we know that they don’t deserve it, despite all their flaws. Seriously, this movie is absolutely brutal to its characters. But ultimately, it’s absolutely inspiring. Because despite disappointment after tragedy after blow to the stomach, this family just keeps their head up and say “so what; we’ll find another way”. Their determination and devotion despite all the obstacles in their way, and their ultimate removal from their anxieties and un-winding is simply and absolutely inspirational, and extremely heartwarming.

The flaw of many independent films that carry a message is that they insist upon themselves. Sometimes it works admirably – a recent example I can recall is The Fountain; it’s undeniably pretentious, but by fulfilling its own expectations it works as a message film. Little Miss Sunshine delivers its message in simply the most incredibly, charmingly sweet, pure, honest, and innocent way you could ever imagine. It’s just so pure. And that’s really the single most engaging and appealing aspect of what is already an amazing piece of work.

a scathing black comedy that is also emotionally resonant, pro-family, and joy-inducing
I hate to admit it, but my primary interest in showing up for the screening was to see Steve Carell try his hand at a semi-serious role as the suicidal gay literature professor.

But it’s not Steve Carell’s film. It’s a startling departure for him, a nuanced and heartfelt performance that’s just as strong as his career-making turn in 40 Year Old Virgin. Likewise, this film does not in any way belong to Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, or Alan Arkin, all of whom are at the absolute top of their games and each of whom is allowed many moments within the ensemble structure to create a complex and compelling character. Hell, the film doesn’t even belong to Paul Dano, who’s just as good as his more experienced co-stars even though he doesn’t have a single line of dialogue in the first 80% of the movie.

No, this film is owned wholly and entirely by a nine-year-old actress named Abigail Breslin. I think a lot of viewers might miss it because she’s surrounded by enormously talented performers and is “golly gee whiz” “aw shucks” cute, but this performance is, all hyperbole aside, Oscarworthy. The entire film hangs on her emotional vulnerability and she is achingly real in every moment of joy, sorrow, confusion, desolation, and determination. The closest comparison I can think of is Amy Adams in Junebug. She’s that good.

OK, I seem to be writing this review backwards. Let’s see if I can pull together a plot description. The film is basically a dark comedy dysfunctional family road trip. It starts out resoundingly bleak. Richard (Kinnear) is a wannabe motivational speaker who in his desperate drive for excellence has become deeply alienated from his family. His wife Sheryl (Collette) tries to keep their family together but is so frustrated with her husband and nerve- shredded by the stresses of her home that it seems like she will cave in at any moment. Also in the home is Steve’s elderly father, who is perpetually profane and angry and copes with the disappointments of his life by snorting heroin. Richard and Sheryl are raising two children, the cute but seemingly unremarkable Olive (Breslin) and the perpetually silent, glum, and angry Dwayne (Dano), who is marking off the days until he can go join the Air Force and escape this familial hellhole. Into this enclave of joy and bliss enters Sheryl’s brother Frank, who has just been released from the hospital after trying to slit his wrists due to his unrequited love for one of his grad students. When Sheryl tells her brother that she’s glad he’s alive, he tonelessly responds “that makes one of us.”

These are the characters. I know they must seem like pathetic indie stereotypes, but over the course of the film each of them is revealed as a multi-dimensional person struggling miserably but nobly to make the best of a life that is not working out the way they had hoped. And despite the gloomy set-up, this twisted thing becomes the most life-affirming film I’ve seen since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

It’s not a perfect film by any means. At times it feels a little contrived, as if several years of trauma were compressed into two days. And while the climax undeniably represents the most ruthless skewering of beauty pageants in the history of cinema, skewering beauty pageants doesn’t in itself really qualify as daring satire.

Nonetheless, the film packs an emotional wallop that’s going to take a lot of people by surprise.

And I haven’t even mentioned that it happens to be the funniest movie of the year.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 8000000
Revenue 100523181
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Writer Michael Arndt
Actors Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 72 wins & 112 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, SDDS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,802 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision 200T 5274)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)