Little Miss Sunshine Page #3

Synopsis: In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He 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-year-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) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream co
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Fox Searchlight
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 68 wins & 107 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2006
101 min
$59,831,476
Website
5,885 Views


Decided to check out early.

Yes. Yes. And I failed

at that as well.

Olive, the important thing

to understand here...

is that Uncle Frank

gave up on himself.

He made a series of foolish choices-

I'm sorry- and he gave up on himself...

which is something winners never do.

So that's the story, okay?

Now, everyone, just let's move on and, uh-

- [ Sheryl Continues ]

- Is he always like this? How can you stand it?

Olive, tell him about your

routine while you're doing this.

Okay. Little Miss Chili Pepper is

a beauty contest for everyone in Albuquerque...

but you have to be six or seven

and you have to be a girl.

This is our sister.

- Cindy.

- Spring break.

Dwayne went to see his dad

in Florida for two weeks...

and Olive went to Laguna

to see her cousins.

- She made it to the top

of the regionals out there.

- I was in second place.

Well, what do you think

your chances are?

I think I can win,

because some of the other girls...

they've been doing it longer,

but I practice every day.

- Yeah. Good luck.

- Not about luck, Frank.

Luck is the name losers give

to their own failings.

It's about wanting to win,

willing yourself to win.

- You've got to want it badder than anybody else.

- I do.

- Then you're gonna be a winner.

- [ Sheryl ] Richard.

It's the truth.

It's the truth.

You know, actually, there is a message

from Cindy on the machine.

Something about Little Mrs. Sunshine.

- What? Little Miss Sunshine?

- Yeah.

What?

- [ Machine Beeps ]

- [ Woman On Machine ] Sheryl, it's Cindy.

Remember when Olive

was here last month?

She was runner-up in the

regional Little Miss Sunshine?

Theyjust called right now and said that

the girl who won had to forfeit her crown.

I don't know why.

Something about diet pills.

- Now she has a place in the state

contest in Redondo Beach!

- [ Screaming ]

- [ Continues, Indistinct ]

- [ Screaming Continues ]

Oh, my gosh! I won!

I won! I won! I won!

- [ Richard ] Finish your dinner!

- I'm finished!

- What happened?

- I'm just calling to- Cindy!

Yeah, we just got it.

Yeah, she basically went crazy.

- [ Olive ] I won! I won! I won!

- No, I didn't get that.

- The machine cut you off. Okay.

- [ Olive Continues, Indistinct ]

Redondo Beach. This Sunday?

- Wh-Are you guys going?

- [ Whispering ] Yes.

- Can you put it off?

- They have to. They have to.

- Where does that leave us?

- We can't do it. We can't.

No, no- No, I understand

that, Cindy. Yeah.

- They-

- I just- No, I'll just

figure it out. Okay, bye-bye.

It's this Sunday?

Why can'tJeff and Cindy take her?

They have some equestrian

thing in Santa Barbara.

You know, they do that horse

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Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3. This made Arndt the first screenwriter ever to be nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays. He has also been credited under the pseudonyms Michael deBruyn and Rick Kerb, which are mainly used for script revisions. more…

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