Little Miss Sunshine Poster
MOVIEmeter
Top 5000
Down 193 this week

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

R  101 min  -  Adventure | Comedy | Drama   -  18 August 2006 (USA)
8.0
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 8.0/10 from 187,466 users   Metascore: 80/100 
Reviews: 841 user | 249 critic | 36 from Metacritic.com

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Writer:

Michael Arndt
Watch Trailer
 Loading Watchlist 

Watch now

Buy it from Amazon »

Related Lists

image of title
a list of 250 titles by cy1995 created 6 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 455 titles by Dr-Faustus created 9 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 346 titles by mehransolou created 6 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 1,128 titles by JLucasRJ created 5 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 878 titles by wato20 created 1 week ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Download the free IMDb App
Won 2 Oscars. Another 49 wins & 53 nominations See more awards »

Related Videos

Little Miss Sunshine -- A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. Little Miss Sunshine -- Frank and Dwayne talk about what makes life worth living as Olive gets ready for her beauty pageant. Little Miss Sunshine -- A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Abigail Breslin ...
Greg Kinnear ...
Paul Dano ...
Alan Arkin ...
Toni Collette ...
Steve Carell ...
Marc Turtletaub Marc Turtletaub ...
Doctor #1
Jill Talley Jill Talley ...
Brenda Canela ...
Julio Oscar Mechoso ...
Chuck Loring ...
Justin Shilton ...
Gordon Thomson Gordon Thomson ...
Steven Christopher Parker ...
Bryan Cranston ...
Edit

Storyline

In Albuquerque, the housewife Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual and expert in Proust, and 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 years 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)... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Pageant | Beauty Pageant | California | Beauty | Drugs  | See more »

Taglines:

Welcome to Hell See more »

Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Drama

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some sex and drug content See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

View content advisory »
Edit

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Pequeña Miss Sunshine See more »

Filming Locations:

Acton, California, USA See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$8,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$370,782 (USA) (30 July 2006) (7 Screens)

Gross:

$100,221,296 (Worldwide)
See more »

Company Credits

Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

DTS  | SDDS  | Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See full technical specs »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

The character Dwayne was originally supposed to have a Mohawk. See more »

Goofs

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the first scene in the van, Olive isn't wearing her glasses. Although a viewer could easily say she took them off so her headphone wouldn't make them dig into her head, this was actually a mistake that the directors didn't notice for a very long time. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Richard: There are two kinds of people in this world, winners and losers.
See more »


Soundtracks

"Give My Regards to Broadway"
Written by George M. Cohan
Arranged by Weba Garretson, Bob Remstein and Mark Wheaton
Performed by Casandra Ashe See more »