Screenplay:
Michael ArndtCinematography:
Tim SuhrstedtComposer:
Mychael DannaCast:
Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Beth Grant, Dean Norris, Wallace Langham, Geoff Meed, Mary Lynn Rajskub (more)Plots(1)
Olive (Abigail Breslin) is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Her uncle Frank, a renowned Proust scholar, has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence, which allows him to escape somewhat from the family whose very presence torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-well with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in far off California. (20th Century Fox AU)
(more)Cast
Abigail Breslin
USA
Best movies:
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Signs (2002)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Steve Carell
USA
Best movies:
Despicable Me (2010)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Toni Collette
Australia
Best movies:
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Mary and Max (2009)
Knives Out (2019)
Greg Kinnear
USA
Best movies:
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Brian Banks (2018)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Alan Arkin
USA
Best movies:
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Paul Dano
USA
Best movies:
Prisoners (2013)
War and Peace (2016) (series)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Beth Grant
USA
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Donnie Darko (2001)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Dean Norris
USA
Best movies:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Gattaca (1997)
Wallace Langham
USA
Best movies:
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
The Boys (2019) (series)
The Social Network (2010)
Geoff Meed
USA
Best movies:
Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) (TV movie)
Fast Five (2011)
Brother (2000)
Mary Lynn Rajskub
USA
Best movies:
Magnolia (1999)
Man on the Moon (1999)
Dinner in America (2020)
Julio Oscar Mechoso
USA
Best movies:
Phone Booth (2002)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Justin Shilton
USA
Best movies:
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The Aviator (2004)
Repli-Kate (2002)
Bryan Cranston
USA
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Detachment (2011)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Paula Newsome
Best movies:
Reign Over Me (2007)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Lauren Shiohama
USA
Best movies:
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Drake & Josh (2004) (series)
Arena (2011)
John Walcutt
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
Mulan (1998)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Gordon Thomson
Canada
Best movies:
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Virus (1980)
Poseidon (2006)
Marc Turtletaub
Best movies:
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Laws of Attraction (2004)
Mel Rodriguez
USA
Best movies:
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The Terminal (2004)
Panic Room (2002)