Little Miss Sunshine is one of those movies worth seeing again, and maybe even watching it a third time. The blurbs about the movie describe it as a family determined to get their kid in a beauty pageant. Or an “endearingly fractured” family on a road trip a lot about the VW bus.
Quite frankly, these descriptions have the effect of making me want to pass up the film. There’s plenty of fractured family movies, there’s plenty of road trip movies, and who cares about some kid in a beauty pageant.
This movie is really about losing and being a loser and especially about losing your dream. Heavy stuff, handled in a delightfully humorous way. It’s not sad at all, and it puts a realistic spin on Hollywood movies and self-help gurus that tell us dreams really do come true.
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