Watch this when
Little Miss Sunshine
The Hoovers didn't win the pageant. They did something better: they got on stage together. 🚐
Who it's for
The Hoovers are each stuck in a private failure: a father selling a winning formula that isn't working, an uncle in the aftermath of despair, a teen who stopped speaking, a mother holding it all together.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 comedy-drama directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from a screenplay by Michael Arndt. A struggling family from Albuquerque, New Mexico, drives about 800 miles in an aging yellow Volkswagen van so that seven-year-old Olive can compete in a children's beauty pageant in Redondo Beach, California.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: A suicide attempt and a sudden death.
Age: R (language, some sex and drug content; MPAA)
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;Rudyard Kipling, “If—”
