When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear ... Read more
Back in 2006, still glowing from the success of Little Miss Sunshine, co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris announced their intention to return to a previously touted project, adapting Tom Perrotta’s comedy novel The Abstinence Teacher.... Read more
Little Miss Sunshine was the second movie (after Napoleon Dynamite) in Fox Searchlight's ongoing buzz-machine (which was followed-up by Juno and now Slumdog Millionaire). Sunshine was the movei that put Fox Searchlight on the mainstream map for award-worthy material.... Read more
The special features are few but decent. There are two commentary audio tracks which are somewhat unstructured but contain plenty of information. Both feature the directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, one has the addition of screenwriter Michael Arndt.... Read more
The Directing dup that is known as Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have teamed up on numerous occasions, to much critical acclaim, to make a bunch of music videos, including an upcoming Red Hot Chili Peppers joint. Now, they jump head first into the world of big screen full-length filmmaking. ... Read more