Little Miss Sunshine was an overwhelming box office success, earning $100.5 million, and was praised mainly for the performances, screenplay and humor. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two: Best Original Screenplay for Michael Arndt and Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Lady OG emoji. Redrawing all the Mr Men & Little Miss characters in lead up to the 50th anniversary next year. Little Miss Sunshine - リトルミス・サンシャイン【MR. MEN LITTLE MISS in 30 SECONDS - Vol.4】. Little Miss Sunshine. This screensaver from Fox Searchlight Pictures introduces the characters from the critically acclaimed movie Little Miss Sunshine (2006) about a dysfunctional family's road trip to a beauty pageant for the seven-year-old Olive. All major characters are shown one by one, along with their name, the 'loves' and 'hates' that. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is a dysfunctional-family comedy with a crucial difference - the function progresses, hilariously, from dys to full and loving.

'LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE'
(2006) (Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette) (R)

Alcohol/ Drugs	Blood/Gore	Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude	Frightening/ Tense Scenes	Guns/ Weapons
Heavy	None	Heavy	Minor	Minor
Imitative Behavior	Jump Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Profanity
Moderate	None	None	Moderate	Extreme
Sex/ Nudity	Smoking	Tense Family Scenes	Topics To Talk About	Violence
Heavy	Minor	Heavy	Heavy	Minor

QUICK TAKE:: Comedy: A dysfunctional family must deal with their differences and idiosyncrasies as they try to drive the younger daughter out to a California beauty pageant.

PLOT:

Seven-year-old Olive Hoover (ABIGAIL BRESLIN) has always dreamed of being a beauty pageant winner, but she's also afraid of being a loser, the kind of person her father Richard (GREG KINNEAR) often disparages in his 9-step 'Refuse to Lose' motivational program he's trying to market. He's the overbearing sort of parent who's always looking for success in himself and others, but his dysfunctional family has him at wit's end. His caring wife Sheryl (TONI COLLETTE) now has her brother Frank (STEVE CARELL), a Proust scholar, living with them following a suicide attempt stemming from his gay lover leaving him for another man, and Richard isn't happy about that.

Their teenage son, Dwayne (PAUL DANO), who wants to fly planes for the Air Force, is an avid reader of Nietzsche and has taken a vow of silence, writing his angry thoughts on paper, while his lascivious grandfather (ALAN ARKIN), has been kicked out of his retirement home for snorting heroin, and is now living with them. When they get word that Olive has made it into the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in California, they try to put their differences aside and drive set off from Albuquerque in their old VW bus.

Beset by various obstacles and complications over their several-day trip, they come together as a family unit with the sole goal of getting Olive entered into the pageant before time runs out.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: Older teens might be interested in it, as might those who are fans of anyone in the cast.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R: For language, some sex and drug content.

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OUR WORD TO PARENTS:

Here's a brief summary of the content found in this R-rated comedy. Profanity consists of at least 30 'f' words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are uttered. Sexually explicit dialogue is present, as is a song with sexually related lyrics (heard as a 7-year-old performs a risqué act in a beauty pageant). Some porn magazines are briefly seen (showing nudity and apparent sexual acts), and a character is noted as being gay.

Other thematic elements include talk of a failed suicide attempt, dysfunctional families, and the way in which child beauty pageants sexualize the young contestants. Tense family material (including parents arguing, the death of a family member, and a sullen teenager) is present, as is some behavior that might be enticing to imitate.

A grandfather snorts heroin and is noted as having a problem with that, while some alcohol and tobacco use also occurs, and various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes.

If you're still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home who may be interested in seeing it, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.

For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, there are varying amounts of camera movement (sometimes a lot of handheld) during the movie.

Little Miss Sunshine Reporting For Duty Purposes

Grandpa snorts heroin and then reacts to that.

We hear that Grandpa was kicked out of his retirement home due to his heroin use.

We see a still-sealed bottle of champagne in a man's store bag.

Some miscellaneous guys have beer.

We see a photo of Frank and his former lover holding glasses of champagne.

Grandpa takes out his heroin to ingest, but we don't see the actual use.

It's suggested that an older person has died from using heroin.

Miscellaneous people have cocktails in a hotel.

None.

Richard has a bad attitude toward others (including Frank) who he believes are losers or have losing attitudes.

Grandpa gives advice to Dwayne to f*ck a lot of women,' adding not one, but a lot. He then asks Dwayne if he's 'getting any' and when Dwayne indicates he isn't, Grandpa tells him he should be getting the 'young stuff' that he claims is the best stuff in the world. He then comments on such jailbait and says it's okay since Dwayne is also jailbait and that it will change when the boy turns 18.

Grandpa refers to Frank as a 'homo' and later uses the term 'fag rag' for a gay porno magazine.

Richard says not to apologize, as it's a sign of weakness.

Richard tells Frank to 'shut up.'

Richard tells Olive she shouldn't have ice cream since it will make her fat.

Richard and Sheryl loudly argue after his deal has apparently fallen through. That night, Dwayne hears them arguing through the wall.

Some viewers might not like that Dwayne wears a t-shirt that reads, 'Jesus was wrong.'

Richard convinces everyone to take a family member's dead body with them, so they smuggle it out the hospital window, put it in the back of their VW bus and speed away (played as dark comedy).

For those sensitive about such matters, we see a sheet covering a recently deceased person's body.

We see a poster showing a diagram drawing of a fighter jet with its accompanying missile array.

A cop wears a sidearm.

Phrases: 'I'm so f*cking tired,' 'F*ck you,' 'It was a f*cking paradise,' 'F*cked' (nonsexual), 'What a f*cking nightmare,' 'F*ck the nine steps,' 'I rammed it down their f*cking throats,' 'I hate you f*cking people,' 'You f*cking losers,' 'F*ck that,' 'Life is one f*cking beauty pageant after another,' 'F*ck the rest,' 'This place is f*cked,' 'F*ck them,' 'They do that horsesh*t every weekend,' 'For crying out loud,' 'Welcome to Hell' (written), 'Homo,' 'You dumb bastard,' 'What the hell?' 'Fag rag,' 'We can tell them all to go to hell,' 'I'll be damned,' 'Total loser,' what sounded like 'Funky-licious' and 'She's kicking ass.'

Some kids might be enticed to imitate Dwayne and his vow of silence (where he writes his thoughts on paper).

Dwayne shoots the paper cover off his straw at his dad.

Trying to get Olive to her pageant on time, Richard drives through a parking lot gate (the moveable a

Little Miss Sunshine, Reporting For Duty!