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Little Miss Sunshine
Directed by
Jonathan Dayton
and
Valerie Faris
R
2006
1h 42m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.8
91%
91%
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A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
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Cast of Little Miss Sunshine
Greg Kinnear
Richard Hoover
Toni Collette
Sheryl Hoover
Steve Carell
Frank Ginsberg
Paul Dano
Dwayne Hoover
Abigail Breslin
Olive Hoover
Alan Arkin
Edwin Hoover
Bryan Cranston
Stan Grossman
Beth Grant
Nancy Jenkins
Wallace Langham
Kirby
Matt Winston
Pageant MC
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Mechanic
Marc Turtletaub
Doctor #1
Jill Talley
Cindy
Brenda Canela
Diner Waitress
Chuck Loring
Convience Store Proprietor
Justin Shilton
Josh
Gordon Thomson
Larry Sugarman
Steven Christopher Parker
Teen Boy #1
John Walcutt
Doctor #2
Paula Newsome
Linda
Dean Norris
State Trooper McCleary
Lauren Shiohama
Miss California
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Pageant Assistant Pam
Jerry Giles
Funeral Home Worker
Geoff Meed
Biker Dad
Joan Scheckel
Judge
Mel Rodriguez
Officer Martinez
Casandra Ashe
Girl in Hallway
Alexandria Alaman
Pageant Contestant
Alissa Anderegg
Pageant Contestant
Brittany Baird
Pageant Contestant
Cambria Baird
Pageant Contestant
Brenae Bandy
Pageant Contestant
Kristen Holaas
Pageant Contestant
Maliah Hudson
Pageant Contestant
Destry Jacobs
Pageant Contestant
Lindsey Jordan
Pageant Contestant
Shane Murphy
Pageant Contestant
Annabelle Roberts
Pageant Contestant
Sydni Stevenson-Love
Pageant Contestant
Nicole Stoehr
Pageant Contestant
Lauren Yee
Pageant Contestant
Terry Bolo
Pageant Worker (uncredited)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Little Miss Sunshine Ratings & Reviews
Bill S.
February 1, 2025
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Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Dayton and Faris satirize our win-win culture, but they don't miss a trick promoting Little Miss Sunshine for the winner's circle.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Little Miss Sunshine makes you want to gather all the kooks in your life and take a road trip.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
... a scrappy human comedy that takes an honest path to laughs and is twice as funny and touching for it.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
... a film of small and gratifying surprises.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
... an amusing movie, viciously well-written and brilliantly acted.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Smart and goofy, tender and laugh-out-loud funny, Little Miss Sunshine is the sleeper hit of the summer.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Heart-stoppingly tender and outrageously hilarious.
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
The film is bountiful with unconventionality and quirk, but at the end of the day, it's a traditional story that delivers in a satisfying way.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
... a road-trip movie with a big-enough heart to make the leap from specialty theaters to the suburban multiplex - where audiences can feel fortunate if they don't recognize themselves.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Unlike so many films that force life lessons down your throat, Little Miss Sunshine weaves them into the fabric of the story.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
It doesn't exploit its characters for comedy or life lessons; it simply embraces the family members and lets them be themselves.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
... this isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it deftly dramatizes our conflicting desires for individuality and an audience to applaud it.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The funniest and most gracefully written, acted and directed dysfunctional-American-family farce comedy of the year thus far.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
You'll be delighted, if a bit breathless from laughing, to be along for the ride.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It is a smartly acerbic satirical masterpiece, a comedy for the ages recalling Wilder, Pierson, Crowe or Chayefsky at their absolute off-color best.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
The word 'quirky' is overused, but Little Miss Sunshine deserves the tag. As with Napoleon Dynamite, the quirkiness in this film comes from honest characters, not desperate-to-be-different caricatures in such films as Garden State.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have pulled off the essential ingredient for this kind of film: a cast that believably creates a family.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
To the filmmakers' credit, they don't sugarcoat the creepiness. They mine it for the kind of laughter that makes you feel uncomfortable but also makes you think.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
A hard-to-resist, often riotous comedy.
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