Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine tells the story of the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families ever seen on motion picture screens. Together, the motley six-member family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself. On their travels through this bizarrely funny landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.

• Directed By

  Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, Alan Arkin

• Written By

  Michael Arndt

• Produced By

  Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf

• Cast

  Wallace Langham, Mary Lynn Rajskub, John Walcutt, Lauren Shiohama, Maliah Hudson, Matt Winston, Justin Shilton, Mel Rodriguez, Paula Newsome, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Beth Grant, Alison Anderegg, Bryan Cranston, Geoff Meed, Gordon Thomson, Robert O'Connor, Steven Christopher Parker, Brenda Canela, Chuck Loring, Dean Norris, Cassandra Ashe, Erik David, Jerry Giles, Joan Scheckel, Jill Talley, Marc Turtletaub, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin