Little Miss Sunshine
★ 79th Academy Awards - Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor
★ A classic that has grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office
Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin), aged seven, loves beauty pageants and unexpectedly wins the local contest. This forces her family to take her on the long journey from Albuquerque to California to compete in the national ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Contest.
Thus the whole family set out on the trip to California in the dilapidated Kombi van that is their only means of transport. A very funny and heartbreaking journey transpires, can this dysfunctional family overcome obstacles to reach this contest?
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette
 | About the Director Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are a husband-and-wife team of directors who have co-directed the short film Paula Abdul: Straight Up, the film Nightswimming, the documentary Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Videos, the biographical comedy Battle of the Sexes.In 2006, they directed the family comedy film Little Miss Sunshine, which won the 79th Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. | |