Little Miss Sunshine, a story of a little girl drawing a family back together and rediscovering what truly matters in life, is a film that easily could have easily taken a wicked turn for the worse, but instead presents one of the best films of 2006. It also presents a story that is applicable to most any theme you can possibly imagine.
So many themes are explored in this brilliantly simple film – intolerance, drug abuse, compassion, love, life, and death to name a few. The film takes us aboard the yellow VW bus across the southwest and into the character’s lives with their direct interactions, but also with the family’s experience as a whole.
Let’s take a moment and explore the characters. We have a man whose own self-inflated ego has taken driven his family into bankruptcy, a mom who is divorced, a heroin-addict grandfather, an anti-social son, and a suicidal homosexual uncle. And in the middle of those flaws is the beautiful Olive, played by the talented Abigail Breslin.
From the first few frames, we witness a man struggling to give an intended motivational speech, a young man striving to become physically fit, an old man doing drugs, a sister picking up her brother from the hospital, and a little girl idolizing beauty pageants. Talk about malcontent. And the only thing to save this family from the depths of their own sorrow, the Little Miss Sunshine contest on the coast.
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