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Travel Reviews: Little Miss Sunshine-Film

Little Miss Sunshine (2006), a film to which my mother said is “Surprisingly interesting” definitely lived up to those expectations and then some. A movie that was seemingly about a young girl trying to win a beauty pageant turned into an exuberant snapshot of the dysfunctional life that surrounds the Hoover family. In no way was I able to expect or predict what happened next in the movie. This Vacation (2015) turned Bad Grandpa (2013) was the overall highlight of my Thursday afternoon.

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We are first introduced to each character in a fun, light, little montage that clearly shows their aspirations and goals. Olive, who wants to be a beauty queen, Richard, who wants to inspire people with his 9 step plan, Dwayne, who wants to be more than the skinny emo boy he is, Grandpa, who wants to get high (Because you know what they say, Grandpas just want to have fun) Cheryl, who just wants to do everything for her family, and Frank, who just wants to die.

In all seriousness, this film plays around with very heavy and real topics such as suicide, drug addiction, death, economic troubles, failure, and realization that your dreams are just out of your reach and you can’t do anything about it. The roller coaster of tones that this movie goes through has you laughing at the fact that their recently dead grandfather, who died due to a drug overdose, is being lifted out a hospital window in order to escape the long legal process families have to go through after a member dies, in order to arrive to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in time. As crazy as that sounds, this not-so-family friendly family movie definitely had me feeling real emotions of joy, sadness, anger (Mostly at Richard) and remorse throughout the entire movie. It isn’t anything that I had expected and I credit the movie for that. Something that can take a topic as heavy as suicide, and turn it into something that is both funny, but doesn’t take away from the actual seriousness of the subject is something that deserves a lot of praise.

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