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Little Miss Sunshine [videorecording] /

by Dayton, Jonathan; Faris, Valerie; Arndt, Michael D; Turtletaub, Marc; Suhrstedt, Tim; Danna, Mychael; Breslin, Abigail; Kinnear, Greg; Dano, Paul; Arkin, Alan; Collette, Toni; Carell, Steve; Cranston, Bryan; Fox Searchlight Pictures; Big Beach Films (Firm); Bona Fide Productions; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc; Deltamac (Hong Kong) Company.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [Beverely Hills, CA] : Hong Kong : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment ; Deltamac [distributor], c2007Description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 4717415193000.Other title: 陽光小小姐 : [videorecording] Hong Kong suggested Chinese title.Subject(s): Beauty contests -- Drama. -- California | Beauty contestants -- Drama. -- United States | Dysfunctional families -- Drama. -- United States | DVD | Road films | Feature films | Fiction films | Comedy filmsCast: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston.Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence. And Olive's grandfather is a loser with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in California.
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Originally released in 2006 as a motion picture.

Anamorphic widescreen 2.40:1.

Director of photography, Tim Suhrstedt ; music, Mychael Danna.

Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston.

Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence. And Olive's grandfather is a loser with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in California.

Category IIB.

DVD (code 3); Dolby digital, 5.1 Dolby surround.

NTSC.

In English with optional subtitles in English, Chinese, Korean or Thai.


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