Titre : Little Miss Sunshine
Réalisation : Jonathan Dayton et

Valerie Faris
Scénario : Michael Arndt
Casting : Kim Davis-Wagner et

Justine Baddley
Costumes : Nancy Steiner
Musique : Mychael Danna et Devotchka
Montage : Pamela Martin
Directeur de la photographie : Tim Suhrstedt
Producteurs : Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly,

 

I'm really picky about films and this actually was original and humorous...smart and well acted. Unique. Just go see it when it comes out. A few people I saw it with said it might be one of the best movies of the year. I completely agree with them. At first it seemed like the movie wasn't going to be funny at all...I mean can a mute and a suicidal man make a comedy? Yes they can!

It got funnier as it went along. I laughed so much I got tears in my eyes during the last dance scene.The whole cast was great, Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell playing really serious at first...when I went into the movie, I thought it was a drama at first..Steve Carell was what brought me to the film in the first place and Alan Arkin is funny in anything he does...I don't want to say much about this film...I want people to go to it and be surprised...

 

I saw Little Miss Sunshine a week ago at the Sydney Film Festival, and the audience I saw it with loved it. There was a lot of laughter going on - especially at the hilarious ending. And amidst the jokes it deals smartly with it's theme of the value of chasing your dreams and being one of life's 'winners' versus valuing what you already have. Or put another way, it celebrates the joys of losing in a culture obsessed with winning.I'm not going to go into detail about the plot, as the film hasn't been widely released yet. There are no huge plots twists, but I think you'll have more fun with this film if you don't know exactly where it's going.

 

As the film started I wasn't so sure about it. All the characters (apart from Toni Colette's perhaps) seemed to be written as being amusingly quirky in a predictable indie-comedy way. But as the movie went on it became easier to warm to them. I think it helped that the actors appeared to be having genuine fun together. These guys don't feel like much of a family at first, and I wondered a couple of times why these people would bother sticking together, but as things progress the strengths of this particular family unit become obvious.

 

And just as all comedies should, it gets funnier as it goes on. I was pleased to see the script stayed true to it's messages all the way to the end, and didn't turn preachy or maudlin.The whole cast work excellently together,and I hope this film has all the success it deserves once it's released