I FINALLY got round to watching this! 
Could be the whole…holidays are here, and i am going back home… but yea….
I liked the film a lot (as mention mucch earlier i think i tend to gravitate toward family issues in movies..)
Official site: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/littlemisssunshine2/
Family bkgrd of the HOOVERS…
Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette) is an overworked mother of two.
Her brother Frank (Steve Carell) is a Proust scholar, temporarily living at home with the family after having attempted suicide in the wake of a failed gay relationship.
Sheryl’s husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) is a Type A personality striving to help support the family as a motivational speaker and life coach.
Dwayne (Paul Dano), Sheryl’s son from a previous marriage, is a Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dreams of becoming a test pilot.
Richard’s father, Edwin (Alan Arkin), recently evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin, lives with the family; he is close to his seven-year-old granddaughter Olive (Abigail Breslin).
Yea need i say more? Watch it:)
The trailer…
More importantly…it was reported that it was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of $8 million and its distribution rights were bought by Fox Searchlight Pictures for $10 million. One of the biggest deals ever made in the history of the Sundance Film Festival.
Now if Fox Searchlight Pictures had not bought it…would it still have been widely distributed? Hmmm…
There was this other movie i watched somewhere in between the semseter, also a sundance film (2005) that i am not sure was as widely distributed…
It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents’ divorce in the 1980s, shot on Super 16mm, mostly using a handheld camera. What i found interesting that both parents were writers and when watching Little Miss Sunshine and thinking of this…hey, what if a film was made about parents who were film-makers and the effects on their children… Like say…the Coppola Family? hehe
