Little Miss Sunshine

A motivational-speaker father who’s losing his motivation, a Nietzsche-obsessed mute son, a Proust scholar uncle who’s barely on nodding terms with existence and a grandfather who’s been thrown out of his retirement home for snorting heroin... If this family got any more ‘wacky’ they’d be sectioned under the Someone Gag Robin Williams Act (see Patch Adams and Flubber).

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Film Details

15
UK Theatrical Release Date: Sep 8th 2006
Genre
- Comedy,
- Drama
Starring
Director
- Jonathan Dayton,
- Valerie Faris
Screenplay
- Michael Arndt

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