Little Miss Sunshine

Comedy, Drama

Steve Carell	Frank
Toni Collette	Sheryl
Greg Kinnear	Richard
Alissa Anderegg	Contestant-Sally Kirkwood
Alan Arkin	Grandpa
Cassandra Ashe	Princess/Butterfly
Abigail Breslin	Olive
Paul Dano	Dwayne
Erik David	Erik Barber
Jill Talley	Cindy
Bryan Cranston
Marc Turtletaub	Doctor #1
Beth Grant
Brenda Canela	Diner Waitress
Julio Oscar Mechoso	Mechanic
Toni Colette

Director	Jonathan Dayton; Valerie Faris; Jonathon Dayton
Producer	Albert Berger; Peter Saraf; David T. Friendly; Michael Beugg
Writer	Michael Arndt

Little Miss Sunshine is a character driven film about a rather dysfunctional family. The characters and their oddities are listed below: Grandpa (was kicked out of a nursing home and enjoys snorting heroin), Dad (a motivational speaker wannabe), Mom (fairly balanced, but secretly smokes cigarrettes), Son (He is a nihlist and has taken a vow of silence until he makes it into the air force academy), Daughter (an adoreable little girl who only wants to win a state beauty pageant) and Mom's Brother (Tried commiting suicide and failed). The movie centers on this group of peoples' trip across the nation in an old VW bus. They are going to California so the little girl can compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. Needless to say, this odd group of characters has some funny and rather interesting adventures on the road. Sadly, they lose one of the family members along the way, but grow closer to each other in the end.