Time for another wacky family road trip movie, with 2006's Little Miss Sunshine stepping up to the plate as today's summer vacation pick. So popular it became a Best PIcture nominee, with Alan Arkin winning an Oscar for a character he's been playing ever since, and little Abigail Breslin being nodded as well. A cast filled with indie dream actors peppers this movie with humor, charm and chemistry as the dysfunctional family in crisis sets off in a busted up minivan to take little Olive (Breslin) to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant in California. Heartwarming and crowdpleasing, and topped off with a hilarious climactic dance scene involving Rick James's "Superfreak," for which Breslin got the nomination. A little sentimental maybe, but it's still fun to hang out with this group of misfits, especially Steve Carell as the scene-stealing suicidal uncle.
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