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Little Miss Sunshine

2006 · Movie · 98 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer91%as of 2024-08-02
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.7/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic80/100as of 2025-07-14

What it is

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American tragicomedy film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from a screenplay written by Michael Arndt. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, all of whom play members of a dysfunctional family taking the youngest (Breslin) to compete in a child beauty pageant.

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Genres
Comedy / Drama
Original language
English

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