Little Miss Sunshine (English, 2006)

Little Miss Sunshine is a comedy about a dysfunctional American family trying to live as a family dealing with their individual issues and issues with each other. 7 year old Olive (Abigail Breslin) is the only loved-by-all in the whole family and the movie traces the travails of the family traveling in a broken-down van from Albuquerque to California to make Olive participate in Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant.

A wonderful collection of characters - a heroin-snorting, sex-magazine-addict grandfather; an inspirational speaker of a father who himself is a failure and a nobody; a suicidal Proust-scholar of an uncle; a silent, angst-ridden family-hater brother; a high-strung mother (Toni Collette) who is trying to adjust to all these varied people and sweet little Olive, an ordinary girl with extraordinary ambitions, whose beauty lies in her nature rather than in face.

A good acting by all the people make you love all these characters in spite of their faults, and enjoy the darkish-comic situations that present themselves to these interesting set of people. The movie will make you laugh, and at the same time connect to the failure of each individual and then as a family.

Recommendation - Worth watching, though can wait for the DVD
Rating - ✔✔✔