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.

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

Reviews

zombieakacris

"Fuck a lot of woman kid, I have no reason to lie, not just one. A lot of women." Description: A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. Review: Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 dramatic comedy that delivers a...

CinemaSerf

Alan Arkin might have got the Oscar but it's Greg Kinnear who steals this for me. Talk about a pain in the proverbial! He is "Richard", a rather pompously self-motivated man who is trying to sell his nine point plan for success to "Grossmann" (a fleeting appearance from Bryan Cranston). Meantime, hi...

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