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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

★ 7.7 · 7,806 ratings on TMDB

A family on the verge of a breakdown.

Little Miss Sunshine poster★ 7.7

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

DirectorJonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
CastAbigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Beth Grant, Bryan Cranston, Greg Kinnear, Matt Winston
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Little Miss Sunshine keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Shared director or cast.

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