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Writer (WGA):
Michael Arndt (written by)
Release Date:
18 AUGUSZTUS 2006 (USA)
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Tagline:
Where's Olive? more
Plot:
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 41 wins
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48 nominations
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A highly enjoyable ensemble road movie - funny stuff
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Abigail Breslin | ... | Olive Hoover |
 | Greg Kinnear | ... | Richard Hoover |
 | Paul Dano | ... | Dwayne |
 | Alan Arkin | ... | Grandpa Edwin Hoover |
 | Toni Collette | ... | Sheryl Hoover |
 | Steve Carell | ... | Frank Ginsberg |
 | Marc Turtletaub | ... | Doctor #1 |
| Jill Talley | ... | Cindy |
 | Brenda Canela | ... | Diner Waitress |
| Julio Oscar Mechoso | ... | Mechanic |
 | Chuck Loring | ... | Convenience Store Proprietor |
 | Justin Shilton | ... | Josh |
| Gordon Thomson | ... | Larry Sugarman |
 | Steven Christopher Parker | ... | Teen Boy #1 |
 | Bryan Cranston | ... | Stan Grossman |
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Rated R for language, some sex and drug content.
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Runtime:
101 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:15 |
Ireland:15A |
Australia:M |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) |
USA:R (certificate #42333) |
Finland:K-11 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Netherlands:12 |
Italy:T |
Argentina:13 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Germany:6 |
Sweden:7 |
New Zealand:R13 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
South Korea:15 |
Malaysia:U (DVD) |
Brazil:14 |
Philippines:R-13 |
Japan:PG-12 |
Chile:TE |
Norway:10 (TV rating) |
Iceland:L
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Dwayne is actually from a previous marriage of Sheryl's. She says toward the beginning "he visited his dad in Florida", and a wedding photo is shown with him in it, but much younger. Olive however is not, because her last name is Hoover, the same as her father's.
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Continuity: When the woman with the clipboard says "Olive Hoover, two minutes" she leaves but she comes back not even a minute later when she was supposed to give Olive another minute.
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Featured in "I Love the New Millennium: (#1.7)" (2008)
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Soundtrack:
La Llorona
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I saw Little Miss Sunshine a week ago at the Sydney Film Festival, and the audience I saw it with loved it. There was a lot of laughter going on - especially at the hilarious ending. And amidst the jokes it deals smartly with it's theme of the value of chasing your dreams and being one of life's 'winners' versus valuing what you already have. Or put another way, it celebrates the joys of losing in a culture obsessed with winning.
I'm not going to go into detail about the plot, as the film hasn't been widely released yet. There are no huge plots twists, but I think you'll have more fun with this film if you don't know exactly where it's going.
As the film started I wasn't so sure about it. All the characters (apart from Toni Colette's perhaps) seemed to be written as being amusingly quirky in a predictable indie-comedy way. But as the movie went on it became easier to warm to them. I think it helped that the actors appeared to be having genuine fun together. These guys don't feel like much of a family at first, and I wondered a couple of times why these people would bother sticking together, but as things progress the strengths of this particular family unit become obvious. And just as all comedies should, it gets funnier as it goes on. I was pleased to see the script stayed true to it's messages all the way to the end, and didn't turn preachy or maudlin. The whole cast work excellently together, and I hope this film has all the success it deserves once it's released.