Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
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Little Miss Sunshine is a American comedy-drama road film and the directorial debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, and was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6, 2005, and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006, and its distribution rights were bought by Fox Searchlight Pictures for one of the biggest deals made in the history of the festival. The film had a limited release in the United States on July 26, 2006, and later expanded to a wider release starting on August 18.
Sheryl Hoover is an overworked mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her gay brother, Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with the family after having attempted suicide. Sheryl’s husband Richard is a Type A personality striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. Dwayne, Sheryl’s son from a previous marriage, is a Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a fighter pilot. Richard’s foul-mouthed father, Edwin, recently evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin, lives with the family. Olive, the daughter of Richard and Sheryl and the youngest of the Hoover family, is an aspiring beauty queen who is coached by Grandpa.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Writer: Michael Arndt
Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin
Cast:
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 |
John Walcutt | … | Doctor #2 |
Paula Newsome | … | Linda |
Dean Norris | … | State Trooper McCleary |
Beth Grant | … | Pageant Official Jenkins |
Wallace Langham | … | Kirby |
Lauren Shiohama | … | Miss California |
Mary Lynn Rajskub | … | Pageant Assistant Pam |
Jerry Giles | … | Funeral Home Worker |
Geoff Meed | … | Biker Dad |
Matt Winston | … | Pageant MC |
Joan Scheckel | … | Judge |
Casandra Ashe | … | Girl in Hallway |
Mel Rodriguez | … | Officer Martinez |
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 |
Erik David Barber | … | Photographer (uncredited) |
Terry Bolo | … | Pageant Worker (uncredited) |
Marc De’Antone | … | Seminar Class (uncredited) |
Tara Dawn Holland | … | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Ksenia Jarova | … | Pretty Girl (uncredited) |
Alva Loomis | … | Hotel Security (uncredited) |
Robert O’Connor | … | Pageant Judge #1 (uncredited) |
Regis Philbin | … | Self (voice) (uncredited) |
Melissa Roberts | … | Pageant Mom (uncredited) |
Matthew W. Tate | … | Funeral Worker #2 (uncredited) |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia
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