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2006 American nighttime tragicomedy road motion-picture show

Little Miss Sunshine
The movie poster shows the family featured in the film chasing a Volkswagen Microbus. The title of the film is located above the vehicle. From left to right: the mother (wearing sunglasses, a white long-sleeve shirt, and pink pants) is in a running stance behind the vehicle, the son (wearing a yellow short-sleeve shirt and black pants) is pushing the vehicle, the uncle (wearing a pink short-sleeve shirt, a white long-sleeve shirt, white pants, and has a black beard) is in a running stance, the daughter (wearing a red headband, red shirt, blue shorts, and glasses) is near the open door of the vehicle, the grandfather (wearing a white t-shirt, a black vest, and gray pants) is seated in the vehicle reaching for the daughter, and the father (wearing a red t-shirt and sunglasses) is driving the vehicle and looking back at his family. The poster has an all-yellow background and, at the top, features the cast's names and reviews by critics. The bottom of the poster includes the film's credits, rating, and release date.

Theatrical release affiche
Directed by Jonathan Dayton
Valerie Faris
Written by Michael Arndt
Produced by
  • Marc Turtletaub
  • David T. Friendly
  • Peter Saraf
  • Albert Berger
  • Ron Yerxa
Starring
  • Greg Kinnear
  • Steve Carell
  • Toni Collette
  • Paul Dano
  • Abigail Breslin
  • Alan Arkin
Cinematography Tim Suhrstedt
Edited by Pamela Martin
Music past Mychael Danna

Production
companies
  • Big Beach Films
  • Bona Fide Productions
  • Deep River Productions
  • Third Gear Productions
Distributed by Flim-flam Searchlight Pictures

Release dates
  • January 20, 2006 (2006-01-20) (Sundance Moving picture Festival)
  • July 26, 2006 (2006-07-26) (U.s.a.)

Running fourth dimension

 102 minutes
Land United States
Language English language
Budget $viii 1000000[1]
Box office $101 one thousand thousand[1]

Footling Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American black comedy[two] [3] [four] [5] [6] [7] road film and the characteristic motion-picture show directorial debut of the married man–married woman team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by beginning-time writer Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, every bit members of a family unit taking the youngest to compete in a child beauty pageant. Information technology was produced past Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 1000000.[1] [8] Filming began on June 6, 2005, and took place over thirty days in Arizona and Southern California.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January xx, 2006, and its distribution rights were bought by Play tricks Searchlight Pictures for one of the biggest deals made in the history of the festival.[nine] The film had a limited release in the United States on July 26, 2006, and later expanded to a wider release starting on Baronial 18.[1]

Little Miss Sunshine was a box role success, earning $101 one thousand thousand, and was praised mainly for the performances, direction, screenplay and sense of humor. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won 2: Best Original Screenplay for Michael Arndt and Best Supporting Role player for Alan Arkin. Information technology as well won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Characteristic and received numerous other accolades. The film as well won the Screen Actors Guild Laurels for Outstanding Performance by a Bandage in a Motility Picture.

Plot [edit]

Sheryl Hoover is an overworked mother of 2 living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her gay blood brother, Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with the family later on having attempted suicide. Sheryl'due south husband Richard is a Type A personality striving to build a career every bit a motivational speaker and life passenger vehicle. Dwayne, Sheryl'southward son from a previous marriage, is a Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he tin accomplish his dream of condign a fighter pilot. Richard'south foul-mouthed father, Edwin, recently evicted from a retirement dwelling for snorting heroin, lives with the family. Olive, the daughter of Richard and Sheryl and the youngest of the Hoover family, is an aspiring beauty queen who is coached by Edwin.

Olive learns she has qualified for the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant, being held in Redondo Beach, California in two days. Richard, Sheryl, and Edwin want to support her, and Frank and Dwayne cannot be left lone, and so the whole family goes. Considering they accept little coin, they go on an 800-mile road trip in their xanthous Volkswagen van.

A yellow and white Volkswagen Type 2 vehicle with a dirty roof is parked on a street.

Family tensions play out along the fashion, amidst the crumbling van'southward mechanical issues. When the van breaks downwards early on, the family learns that they must push button the van until it is moving at nearly xx mph before it is put into gear, at which bespeak they have to run up to the side door and jump in. Later on on, the van's horn starts honking unceasingly by itself, which leads to the family unit being pulled over by a state trooper.

Throughout the route trip, the family suffers numerous personal setbacks and detect their demand for each other's support. Richard loses an important contract that would have jump-started his motivational business organization. Frank encounters the ex-boyfriend who, in leaving him for an academic rival, had prompted his suicide try. Edwin dies from a heroin overdose, and the family has to smuggle his torso out of the infirmary. During the final leg of the trip, Dwayne discovers that he is color blind, meaning he cannot become a airplane pilot. This prompts him to finally pause his silence and shout his anger and disdain for his family unit, though apologizing later Olive calms him with a hug.

After a frantic race against the clock, the family arrives at the pageant hotel, and are curtly told by a pageant organizer that they are a few minutes past the deadline. A sympathetic hired hand named Kirby instead offers to annals Olive on his own time. As Olive prepares for the pageant, the family sees that the other contestants are slim, sexualized pre-teen girls with teased hair and capped teeth, performing highly elaborate dance numbers with great brio. As Olive's turn to perform draws almost, Richard and Dwayne realize that the amateur Olive is certain to be humiliated and, wanting to spare her feelings, run to the dressing room to talk her out of performing. Sheryl, even so, insists that they "let Olive be Olive", and Olive goes on stage.

Olive's hitherto-unseen dance routine that Edwin had taught her is revealed to be a striptease performed to a Rocasound revamp of Rick James' "Super Freak". Despite the other girls being over-sexualized, Olive'due south caricatural performance scandalizes and horrifies most of the audience and the organizers, who demand Olive be removed from the stage. The members of the Hoover family join Olive onstage and dance aslope her to testify their support. The family completes the dance to a shocked and silent audience, save for a biker dad, Kirby, and Ms. California, who cheer enthusiastically.

The family unit is released from the hotel's security part on the condition that Olive never enters a beauty pageant in California ever again. Piling into the van with the horn still honking, they happily blast through the barrier of the hotel's cost berth and begin their trip home to Albuquerque.

Cast [edit]

  • Greg Kinnear as Richard Hoover
  • Steve Carell as Dr. Frank Ginsberg
  • Toni Collette as Sheryl Hoover
  • Paul Dano as Dwayne Hoover
  • Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover
  • Alan Arkin as Edwin Hoover
  • Bryan Cranston every bit Stan Grossman
  • Beth Grant as Pageant Official Jenkins
  • Wallace Langham as Kirby
  • Matt Winston every bit Pageant MC
  • Julio Oscar Mechoso equally Mechanic
  • Paula Newsome every bit Linda
  • Dean Norris as State Trooper McCleary
  • Mary Lynn Rajskub as Pageant Assistant Pam

Production [edit]

Casting [edit]

Yous commencement off with all these people living their separate lives and the climax of the movie is them all jumping upwards onstage together. Then the story is really virtually these families starting separately and ending together.

—Michael Arndt, writer[10]

When choosing the cast for the film, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris were assisted by casting directors Kim Davis and Justine Baddeley who had worked with them on previous music videos.[xi] The directors had initially settled on Greg Kinnear to portray Richard Hoover.[ citation needed ] However, for the character of Sheryl Hoover, they considered several actresses earlier deciding on Australian actress Toni Collette.[ commendation needed ] Davis and Baddeley traveled to "every English-speaking country"[11] to search for the actress to portray Olive Hoover, and they finally chose extra Abigail Breslin through an audition when she was six. Paul Dano was cast every bit Dwayne two years before production began and in preparation for portraying his character, spent a few days taking his own vow of silence.[12] Alan Arkin, who portrayed Edwin Hoover, was initially considered besides young for the role.[ citation needed ]

The office of Frank, the suicidal Proust scholar, was originally written for Bill Murray, and there was besides studio pressure level for Robin Williams.[xiii] The directing duo chose Steve Carell for the role a few months before filming began, and in an interview revealed: "When we met with Steve Carell, nosotros didn't know he could do this based upon what he had washed. But when we met with him and talked to him about the character, the tone of the picture show and the way nosotros were approaching it, he was right on the same page with us."[11] Although known to Comedy Central viewers for many years as a contributor on the highly rated satirical news plan The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, at the fourth dimension Carell was cast for Niggling Miss Sunshine, he was relatively unknown in Hollywood.[12] Producers of the film were worried that he was non a large enough star and did not have much interim feel.[14]

Script and development [edit]

The script was written by Michael Arndt and was originally almost an Eastward Coast road trip from Maryland to Florida, but was shifted to a journey from New Mexico to California because of budget issues.[xv] Arndt started the script on May 23, 2000 and completed the beginning crude draft by May 26.[16] He had initially planned on shooting the film himself past raising several thousand dollars and using a camcorder.[17] Instead, he gave the screenplay to producers Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger who teamed up with Deep River Productions to find a potential director.[18] Addressing the inclusion of the Fargo character Stan Grossman in the film later its release, Arndt stated that he had "merely [simply] assumed that people [the filmmakers] [had known] it was a tribute to Fargo, but that [in actuality] people didn't realize until we started shooting", in addition expressing gratitude towards the Coen brothers for assuasive him to retain the graphic symbol.[19]

The producers met directors Dayton and Faris while producing Election and in plow gave the script to them to read in 2001. The directors commented later on on the script stating: "This film really struck a chord. We felt similar information technology was written for us."[13] The script was purchased from commencement-time screenwriter Arndt for $250,000 past Marc Turtletaub, one of the film'southward producers, on December 21, 2001.[20] Yerxa and Berger remained as producers equally they were responsible for finding the directors and cinematographer, assisting in the catastrophe re-shoot, and helping bring the pic to the Sundance Film Festival.[21]

The film was pitched to several studios, and the only interested studio was Focus Features, who wanted to film it in Canada.[13] Afterwards the studio attempted to take the film be centered on the grapheme Richard Hoover, and Arndt disagreed, he was fired and replaced by another writer.[10] The new writer added several scenes, including Richard'southward confrontation with the graphic symbol who dismisses his motivational technique business concern.[22] A corporate modify brought in a new studio head and Arndt was rehired when the new author left after four weeks of rewriting the script.[23] After two years of pre-production, Focus Features dropped the moving-picture show in August 2004. Marc Turtletaub paid $400,000 to Focus Features to buy back the rights to the motion picture and for development costs.[13] He also paid for the $viii meg upkeep, allowing Little Miss Sunshine to and then be filmed.[24]

Filming [edit]

Chief photography began on June 6, 2005.[25] Filming took identify over 30 days in Arizona and southern California, with scenes shot in keeping with the chronological order of the script.[11] [12] [21] Arndt re-wrote the catastrophe to the film six weeks before the moving-picture show'southward release at the Sundance Motion-picture show Festival, and this was filmed in December 2005.[26] The moving picture was dedicated to Rebecca Annitto, the niece of producer Peter Saraf and an extra in scenes gear up in the diner and the convenience store, who was killed in a machine accident on September 14, 2005.[27]

Volkswagen T2 Microbus [edit]

A film screenshot shows the family all seated in the Volkswagen Microbus as it is driven on a highway. The angle is from the windshield looking into the vehicle so that the majority of the interior can be seen. The mother is sitting in the front passenger seat with a dull expression on her face. The father is driving the vehicle with a similar expression. In the middle row, the daughter is looking down, listening to music from a CD player. Her uncle is seated on the right, looking to his left. In the back row, the grandfather is looking towards his grandson (whose face is slightly obscured by his father's head due to the angle). In the background, other vehicles can be seen driving on the highway.

Five modified vans were used during filming to capture diverse angles of the characters, including this ane through the windshield.

When writing the script, Arndt chose the Volkswagen T2 Microbus to utilise for the road trip based on his feel with the vehicle and its practicality for filming: "I remember thinking, information technology'due south a road trip, what vehicle are you going to put them in? And [the] VW bus but seems logical, simply considering y'all have these high ceilings and these clean sight lines where you lot can put the photographic camera. In the front end windshield looking dorsum and seeing everybody."[10] V VW Microbuses were used for the family car every bit some were modified for different filming techniques.[28] Three of the vans had engines, and the two without were mounted on trailers.[28] During pre-product, the cinematographer used a basic video camera and prepare it up at angles inside the van to determine the all-time locations to shoot from during filming.[12] Many of the problems associated with the van that were included in the plot (a broken clutch, a stuck horn, and a detached door), were based on similar problems that writer Arndt experienced during a childhood trip that involved the aforementioned type of vehicle.[23] [29] [xxx]

While filming the scenes where the family pushes the van to get it started, a stunt coordinator was used to ensure the rubber of the actors.[ commendation needed ] In an interview, role player Greg Kinnear jokingly described how the scenes were filmed when he was driving: "I was going like 50 miles an hour in this '71 VW van that doesn't accept side airbags. Basically, you lot'd await for this huge camera truck to come whizzing in front of us with the camera. 'Okay, go!' I mean, it was insanity; it's the most dangerous picture I've ever made."[31] While filming the scenes in the van, the actors would at times remain in the vehicle for three or four hours a day.[31] For scenes in which Alan Arkin's character was swearing excessively, Breslin had her headphones on and could non hear the dialogue, just like her character in the motion-picture show. Only when she saw the picture show did she know what was existence said.[31] [32] On July 25, 2006, Play a joke on Searchlight Pictures invited VW motorcoach owners to a screening at Vineland Bulldoze-In theater in Manufacture, California. Over 60 of the vans were nowadays at the screening.[33]

Pageant [edit]

A film screenshot showing five girls standing on stage at the pageant at the end of the film. From left to right, the first girl (wearing a one-piece swimsuit) has her left leg placed in front of her right, the second girl (wearing a two-piece swimsuit) has her legs shifted in the opposite direction, at center the main character (wearing a one-piece swimsuit) is standing straight, the fourth girl (wearing a one-piece swimsuit) has her left leg placed in front of her right, and the last girl (wearing a two-piece swimsuit) also has her left foot forward. All of the girls are smiling towards different angles. The background of the stage is decorated and it is reflected on the shiny surface of the stage.

To make Abigail Breslin'southward graphic symbol (centre) appear larger than the other girls, she wore a padded suit. Much of the equipment and costumes exhibited during the pageant were provided by bodily contestants' parents.

Prior to writing the script, Arndt read in a paper about Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to a group of high school students and saying "If at that place's i thing in this world I detest, it's losers. I despise them." As a result, Arndt developed his script lampooning the thought process: "And I thought there'southward something so wrong with that attitude ... I wanted to ... attack that idea that in life you're going up or you're going down ... So to a degree, a child beauty pageant is the epitome of the ultimate stupid meaningless contest people put themselves through."[10] Co-managing director Jonathan Dayton also commented on the importance of the pageant to the film: "As far as the pageant goes, it was very of import to us that the film non be about pageants. It's almost being out of identify, information technology'south about not knowing where you're going to end upward ..."[ citation needed ] All the girls acting as participants in the beauty pageant, except Abigail Breslin, were veterans of real dazzler pageants. They looked the same and performed the same acts as they had in their real-life pageants.[34] To prepare for filming, the directors attended several pageants in Southern California and met with a coordinator to learn more about the pageant procedure.[35] A female parent of a contestant in the film claimed that the motion picture overplayed practices that the contestants go through: "Most pageants aren't quite like that, with shaving the girls' legs, spraying them with fake tans and putting on and then much makeup."[35]

When Focus Features initially wanted to film in Canada, the directors opposed it, believing the costs of flying all of the pageant girls and their families would be excessive.[xiii] The contestants and their families instead spent two weeks filming in a hotel in Ventura with most of the equipment and costumes being provided by the contestants' parents.[35] [36] To make Breslin'south character the "plump" effigy as shown in the motion picture, she had to wear a padded conform during filming.[37] For Olive'southward final scene involving her dancing routine, Breslin spent two weeks preparing with a choreographer.[31]

Release [edit]

Sundance Movie Festival [edit]

Post-obit the film's premiere at the Sundance Movie Festival on January twenty, 2006, several studios placed bids; Fox Searchlight Pictures won, offer $10.5 million, plus 10% of all the gross revenues.[thirteen] The bargain occurred less than a twenty-four hours after the premiere and was one of the biggest deals fabricated in the history of the festival.[38] [39] The previous year's festival had the film Hustle & Catamenia receive $9 1000000 from Paramount Classics and in 1999, Happy, Texas received $10 million from Miramax Films.[39] [xl]

Box office [edit]

Footling Miss Sunshine initially opened in seven theaters in the U.S. in its first week, earning $498,796.[41] On July 29, 2006, the showtime Saturday afterwards its initial limited release, Little Miss Sunshine earned a $xx,335 per-theater average gross.[42] It had the highest per-theater average gross of all the films shown in the Usa every day for the beginning 21 days of its release, until being surpassed by the IMAX film Deep Sea 3D on August 15.[43] In its third calendar week of release Little Miss Sunshine entered the list of top 10 highest grossing American films for the week. Information technology remained in the top 10 until the 11th week of release, when it dropped to 11th place.[41] The highest position it reached was third, which occurred in its 5th week of release. The largest number of theaters the film appeared in was 1,602.[41] Internationally, the picture earned over $5 one thousand thousand in Australia, $3 million in Germany, $iv million in Spain, and $6 meg combined in the Britain, Ireland, and Republic of malta.[44] Little Miss Sunshine has had gross receipts of $59,891,098 in North America and $40,632,083 internationally for a total of $100,523,181.[1]

Home media [edit]

The DVD was released on December 19, 2006. It includes a dual-disc widescreen/full screen format, two commentary tracks, four alternate endings, and a music video by DeVotchKa. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled $xix,614,299 and information technology was the 6th-nearly sold DVD of the calendar week.[45] By September xvi, 2008 gross domestic DVD sales totaled $55,516,832.[45] Rentals of the moving-picture show from its release through April xv, 2007 totalled $46.32 1000000.[46] The movie was released on Blu-ray on Feb ten, 2009.[47]

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the motion-picture show received a 91% positive amass rating, based on 218 reviews, with an average rating of 7.72/ten. The site'due south critical consensus reads, "Fiddling Miss Sunshine succeeds thanks to a strong ensemble cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, and Abigail Breslin, equally well as a delightfully funny script."[48] On Metacritic, the film holds a score of lxxx out of 100, based on reviews from 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[49]

Michael Medved gave Little Miss Sunshine four out of four, saying that "... this startling and irresistible nighttime comedy counts every bit 1 of the very best films of the twelvemonth ..." and that directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the film itself, and actors Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, and Steve Carell deserved Oscar nominations.[50] Joel Siegel issued an 'A' rating, saying that "Orson Welles would accept to come up back to life for this not to make my year-cease Height 10 list."[51] Stella Papamichael of BBC News called the flick "a winning blend of sophistication and silliness".[52] USA Today 'south Claudia Puig commented on Breslin'due south depiction of Olive Hoover, "If Olive had been played past any other footling girl, she would not have afflicted united states as mightily equally information technology did."[53]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly labeled the picture with a 'C' rating, calling the characters "walking, talking catalogs of screenwriter index-card information".[54] Jim Ridley of The Hamlet Voice called the movie a "rickety vehicle that travels mostly downhill" and a "Sundance clunker".[55] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Post criticized the picture show, stating "Though Little Miss Sunshine is consistently contrived in its characters' as well-cute misery, the determination, which is genuinely outrageous and uplifting, is almost worth the hype."[56] Anna Nimouse of National Review wrote that the film "is praised as a 'experience-good' moving-picture show, perhaps for moviegoers who like bamboo under their fingernails. If you are miserable, and so Little Miss Sunshine is the motion picture for you".[57] Paste Magazine named it one of the 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000–2009), ranking it at #34.[58]

Roger Ebert reflected on the pic's themes, writing "Little Miss Sunshine shows usa a world in which there's a form, a brochure, a procedure, a chore title, a diet, a footstep-by-step plan, a career path, a prize, a retirement customs, to quantify, sort, categorize and process every human emotion or desire. Nil exists that cannot be compartmentalized or turned into a self-improvement mantra virtually 'winners and losers.'"[59] Brian Tallerico of UGO.com likewise focused on the film'southward themes: "Little Miss Sunshine teaches us to encompass that center ground, acknowledging that life may just be a beauty pageant, where we're ofttimes going to be outdone past someone prettier, smarter, or simply plain luckier, but if we get up on that stage and be ourselves, everything volition turn out fine."[sixty]

Accolades [edit]

A young girl wearing a black dress looks down to her right while smiling.

Footling Miss Sunshine was nominated for and won multiple awards from numerous pic organizations and festivals. It was nominated for 4 University Awards and was awarded two at the 79th University Awards: Michael Arndt received "Best Original Screenplay" and Alan Arkin received "Best Supporting Actor".[61] In addition, the AFI Awards deemed information technology the "Film of the Year", while the BAFTA Awards awarded it two awards out of six nominations with "Best Screenplay" for Arndt and "Best Thespian in a Supporting Role" for Arkin.[62] [63] The Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards,[64] Screen Actors Guild (SAG),[65] and Washington D.C. Area Film Critics[66] commended the moving-picture show for its ensemble cast. And so x-year-onetime Abigail Breslin was nominated for several Best Supporting Actress and Quantum Performance awards.

The Deauville Film Festival awarded the moving-picture show the "Thou Special Prize" while the Palm Springs International Film Festival awarded it the "Chairman's Vanguard Award".[67] [68] The Independent Spirit Awards awarded it iv awards out of five nominations, including "Best Characteristic" and "Best Director".[69] The pic's soundtrack was nominated for "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pic, Television receiver, or Other Visual Media" at the Grammy Awards, only lost to Walk the Line.[70] The film also had multiple nominations at the MTV Moving picture Awards,[71] Satellite Awards,[72] Chicago Film Critics Clan Awards,[73] and Golden Globe Awards,[74] among others.

University Awards producers controversy [edit]

There was some controversy concerning how many producers should receive an honour from the Academy of Movement Picture Arts and Sciences for their work in producing the pic. In 1999, the Academy decided that up to a maximum of three producers are eligible to be included in an honour for a moving picture.[75] The rule was implemented to forestall a large number of involved filmmakers to appear on phase when a motion picture was receiving an award.[76] The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has not set up a limit of producers that can be honored for a picture.[77] In the instance of Fiddling Miss Sunshine, there were 5 producers (Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, and David Friendly) and the Academy did not desire to include Berger and Yerxa. The ii producers were responsible for finding the script, introducing the directors to the other producers, choosing the cinematographer, profitable in the re-shoot of the ending, and helping bring the film to the Sundance Pic Festival.[21] [78] The Academy best-selling that the two were partners in the production process, but declared that only individual producers are recognized by the Academy. Deeming the two producers' work as a collective effort, the Academy refused to consider either Berger or Yerxa for the award.[75] Producer David Hoberman commented on the support for honoring all five producers, stating "If there are 5 people actually involved in producing a pic, there's no reason why someone who's fabricated a practiced enough motion picture to be nominated for an Academy Award should exist precluded from being rewarded for the piece of work they did."[75] Lynda Obst who was affiliated with an Academy Accolade producer committee, also commented: "Mostly, five people don't brand a picture show. If this is an exception, then information technology'south a sorry situation. Only you don't destroy a rule for an exception."[75]

The PGA had previously honored all five of the producers.[79] Albert Berger, reacting to the Academy'southward conclusion while at a panel for the film, stated "No matter what the University decided, nosotros produced this pic."[21] In June 2007, the Academy announced that they would allow exceptions for films that had more than than iii producers in the future, stating "The commission has the right, in what it determines to be a rare and boggling circumstance, to name whatever additional qualified producer as a nominee."[79]

Music [edit]

"It was very of import for us to find the correct sound for this movie. Nosotros hoped that we could notice it earlier we really filmed the picture because that'due south how we worked for years and we've found that music informs our choices."

—Jonathan Dayton, director[eleven]

Score [edit]

The score for Piffling Miss Sunshine was written past the Denver band DeVotchKa and composer Mychael Danna.[12] Performed by DeVotchKa, much of the music was adjusted from their pre-existing songs, such as "How It Ends", which became "The Winner Is", "The Enemy Guns" and "Y'all Dear Me" from the album How It Ends, and "La Llorona" from Una Volta.

Directors Dayton and Faris were introduced to DeVotchKa's music after hearing the song "You Love Me" on Los Angeles' KCRW radio station.[80] The directors were so impressed with the music that they purchased iPods for cast members containing DeVotchKa albums.[81] Mychael Danna was brought in to assistance conform the pre-existing material and collaborate with DeVotchKa on new fabric for the motion picture. The Little Miss Sunshine score was not eligible for University Award consideration due to the percentage of material derived from already written DeVotchKa songs.[82] The DeVotchka song "Til the End of Time" received a nomination for a 2006 Satellite Award as "Best Original Vocal".[83] Both DeVotchKa and Danna received 2007 Grammy nominations for their work on the soundtrack.[81]

Soundtrack [edit]

Picayune Miss Sunshine (Original Movement Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack anthology past

Various Artists
Released July eleven, 2006 (2006-07-xi)
Genre Soundtrack
Length 46:31
Label Lakeshore Records
Producer Diverse Artists
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [84]
Entertainment Weekly (A−)[85]
Empire [86]
SoundtrackNet [87]

The soundtrack reached #42 on the "Pinnacle Independent Albums" and 24 on "Top Soundtracks" in the U.S. for 2006.[88] It contains two songs past Sufjan Stevens ("No Man's Land" and "Chicago"), and songs past Tony Tisdale ("Catwalkin'") and Rick James ("Super Freak").[12] [84] Two additional songs in the film that were written past Gordon Pogoda—"Let It Go" and "You lot've Got Me Dancing" (the latter of which he co-wrote with Barry Upton)—are featured during the pageant scenes almost the end of the picture show.[89] "Super Freak", the source music danced to past Olive during the pageant contest, was introduced during post-production by a suggestion from the music supervisor.[ninety] Arndt'southward screenplay had called for Prince'south song "Peach"; during filming, the ZZ Top song "Gimme All Your Lovin'" was used.[xc] For the film, "Super Freak" was remixed by tape producer Sebastian Arocha Morton (known professionally as ROCAsound).

Track listing [edit]

No. Championship Writer(southward) Length
1. "The Winner Is" DeVotchKa 3:04
2. "Til the End of Time" DeVotchKa 3:56
3. "Y'all Love Me" DeVotchKa 4:02
4. "First Button" DeVotchKa 1:05
five. "No Human'southward State" Sufjan Stevens 4:47
6. "Permit'due south Go" DeVotchKa 3:21
7. "No One Gets Left Behind" DeVotchKa 1:14
8. "Chicago" Sufjan Stevens 6:07
9. "We're Gonna Make It" DeVotchKa 2:32
10. "Do You Recall At that place'south a Heaven" DeVotchKa 1:23
xi. "Catwalkin'" Tony Tisdale 1:38
12. "Super Freak (Rocasound Revamp)" Rick James four:13
13. "La Llorona" DeVotchKa 3:24
fourteen. "How Information technology Ends" DeVotchKa five:39
Total length: 46:31

Musical [edit]

A musical based on the film, with music and lyrics by William Finn and book and direction past James Lapine, was workshopped at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak in Yulee, Florida October 25 through November vii, 2009.[91] It and then premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse from February 15 through March 27, 2011.[92] The cast features Hunter Foster, Malcolm Gets, Georgi James, Dick Latessa, Jennifer Laura Thompson, and Taylor Trensch.[93] [94]

On March 11, 2011, Gets left the show. Ensemble member Andrew Samonsky took over the role of Uncle Frank, and understudy Ryan Wagner took over the role of Joshua Rose until the show closed on March 27, 2011. The musical premiered at 2d Phase Theatre on October 15, 2013 (previews), and officially on November xiv, 2013. The production closed on December 15, 2013.[95] The cast features Hannah Rose Nordberg as Olive Hoover, Stephanie J. Cake as Sheryl Hoover, Rory O'Malley as Frank Hoover, Wesley Taylor equally Joshua Rose, Josh Lamon every bit Buddy, David Rasche as Granddaddy Hoover, Jennifer Sanchez every bit Miss California and Logan Rowland every bit Dwayne Hoover.[96]

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External links [edit]

  • Little Miss Sunshine at IMDb
  • Little Miss Sunshine at the TCM Movie Database
  • Piffling Miss Sunshine at AllMovie
  • Lilliputian Miss Sunshine at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Little Miss Sunshine at Metacritic Edit this at Wikidata
  • Fiddling Miss Sunshine at Box Office Mojo

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