Little Miss Sunshine

I have wanted to see Little Miss Sunshine, since I read about it during Sundance. I had heard such wonderful things and I really wanted to see it. Was it everything that I expected, no...it was more then I expected. I knew it was going to be funny, but it was a lot funnier than I could have ever imagined. The movie was about a family, traveling to California in their VW van, for their daughter's beauty pagent. The family consists of Toni Collette as the mother Sheryl and Greg Kinnear as her husband Richard. They have a daughter Olive, played by Abigail Breslin and her brother Dwayne played by Paul Dano. Their uncle Frank is Sheryl's brother, he is a suicidal Proust scholar played by Steve Carell. The last member of the clan is Richard's father who is played by Alan Arkin. The Grandpa has been Olive's coach for the beauty pagent, and is funny throughout the film.

The film has a ton of great lines and was truely funny, but it was also in a way heart warming. The family goes through a lot throughout the film, and they have a lot of Roadbumps along the way, but the manage to stay together as a family and get through everything. I was excited by the cast in this film, I have enjoyed, Toni Collette has always been one of my favorite actresses, and Greg Kinnear has always done a fantastical job on screen, I loved The Matador and As Good As It Gets. Steve Carrell is one of my newer favorite actors, mainly because of Anchorman.

Well thats al for this post, coming up on my next edition, will be my Emmy Picks.