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Little Miss Sunshine

Mała miss

USA | 2006, 101 min.

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Festival edition: 2006

Section: Premieres 2006-2007

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Meet the Hoover family: Olive, a seven-year-old, slightly pudgy, aspiring beauty queen; her father, Richard, a struggling motivational speaker; and her mom, Sheryl, who has to bring her Proust scholar/brother, Frank, home after his failed suicide attempt. Frank has to stay with Sheryl's Nietzsche-worshipping son, Dwayne, who has taken a vow of silence until he is old enough to be a fighter pilot. Then there's Grandpa, recently kicked out of his nursing home for snorting heroin. They all set off to take Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. This madcap comedy literally transports a Capraesque lunacy to the present. And like the films of that master of farce, this delicious, abundant, comic storytelling sends up American values even as it draws out the humanity hidden in the most misfit of families.

Director(-s): Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris direct music videos and documentaries for R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. They earned two Grammy Awards and nine MTV Music Video Awards. "Little Miss Sunshine" is their first feature film as directors.

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Producer: Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, David Friendly, Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger

Cast: Abigail Breslin (Olive), Greg Kinnear (Richard), Paul Dano (Dwayne), Alan Arkin (dziadek), Toni Collette (Sheryl), Steve Carell (Frank)

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