En bas Abigail Breslin et Paul Dano
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Production
Développement
Le film a mis cinq ans avant de voir vraiment le jour, à cause de difficultés à trouver le financement.
Tournage
Little Miss Sunshine fut tourné en Arizona et en Californie à partir du 6 juin 2005, en 30 jours.
Distribution
Les droits de distribution du film ont par ailleurs été achetés par Fox Searchlight lors du festival de Sundance pour une somme de 10 millions de dollars, ce qui en fait l'un des plus gros achats dans l'histoire du festival.
Présentation du film
Little Miss Sunshine fut présenté à de nombreux festivals de cinéma, dont celui du Festival de Sundance, le 20 janvier 2006, suivi d'une première au festival du du film de Los Angeles le 2 juillet 2006. Le film fut également présenté au festival de Locarno le 12 août 2006 et au festival de Deauville le 4 septembre 2006 où il remporta le prix.
Accueil
Le film a reçu un excellent accueil du public et de la critique, comme en témoignent les diverses récompenses cinématographiques qu'il a obtenues, dont des prix aux festivals de Sundance, au Festival du Film Américain de Deauville ainsi qu'un César du meilleur film étranger en 2007. Il a également reçu l'Oscar 2006 du meilleur scénario original et l'Oscar du meilleur second rôle masculin a été attribué à Alan Arkin pour le personnage du grand-père.
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Simply perfect
Author: rasvag53 from New Jersey
11 August 2006
Do yourself a huge favor and go and see this film and then tell your friends about it. It has no special effects!!! No HUGE stars (though Kinnear and Arkin are famous and perfectly cast) This film has just great characters, unusual but perfectly understandable circumstances,fantastic dialog, wonderful actors,stunning cinematography, effortless direction and seamless editing.This film was very well received by the audience I sat with. I laughed,I cried and laughed until I cried.
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I heard that this film only cost three million dollars to make...it just goes to show that tens of millions need not be spent to get a treasure. Go see it and be thoroughly entertained. This is one good old-fashioned movie for everyone over 13 (if you preempt the grandfather's language, which is really part of his character). Hope it gets some nominations!!!
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Hilarious! I loved this fun, but slightly dark comedy
Author: ArizWldcat from United States
10 February 2006
We were happy to have had the chance to see this at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. I loved the cast: Greg Kinear, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano and Steve Carrell were ALL marvelous as the dysfunctional family. Little Miss Sunshine refers to a pageant to be held in California (the movie never states where the family lives, but most of the road scenes were definitely in the Phoenix, Arizona area. (added 8/2/06: I know now that the movie is set in New Mexico, for those of you who are interested in that sort of thing!)
The story follows little Olive, a normal child, who by a fluke wins her way into the finals of the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The family decides they must accompany her in their old VW bus, so a road trip ensues.The final third of the movie, which deals with the actual pageant, is by far the funniest part of the film. It illustrates, with great hilarity, the frightening people who are involved in child pageants. You can't help rooting for Olive, who is refreshingly normal amongst the frighteningly plastic other contestants.(After discovering that I was in the (opposite of loved it) category on IMDb, I changed my subject line, because this was one of the best movies I've seen all year!! I LOVED IT)
This is NOT a movie for children. After reading through some other user comments, I have to say I'm dismayed by the amount of people complaining about the F word. This movie is rated R, mostly because of its frequent use of the F word,along with some drug use. If you do 5 minutes of research before you go to a movie, you should educate yourself as to WHY a movie is rated the way it is. If you are offended by swearing, then, if you go to a movie that is rated R because of language, be prepared to be offended! Okay, I'm off the soapbox. This is NOT a movie for children.
