Story about Little Miss Sunshine / 阳光小美女 / 阳光小小姐 / 选美一家亲
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-cou...
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual and expert in Proust, and tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl's husband Richard is unuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne's grandfather Edwin was sent away from the intitution for elder Sunet Manor and is addicted in heroin. When her seven year old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunhine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi), in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and make a dream come true.