{"id":1593,"date":"2006-08-07T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/little_miss_sun\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T22:26:28","slug":"little_miss_sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/little_miss_sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Miss Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0449059\/\">Little Miss Sunshine<\/a> is the debut feature of directing team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who&#8217;ve previously specialised in music videos. So does this mean that this comedy is some kind of XXX\/Fast &#038; Furious MTV edited affair? No it does not.<br \/>\nThe film has a superb cast featuring Steve Carrell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Alan Arkin amongst others as part of one of the most dysfuntional families you could meet including a drug-taking grandfather, a put-upon mother, a failed suicide, a mute teenager and an as-yet unsuccessful motivational speaker. For perfectly good reasons they all embark on a roadtrip to take their daughter to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine contest on the west coast. Travelling in a VW camper van, problems ensue, but delightfully, these aren&#8217;t always the obvious problems.<br \/>\nThe film is a comedy, but throughout, there are truly tender moments, and jokes are not always the obvious ones. I laughed out loud plenty of times, and was in tears during a scene involving a car horn. The point is that although maybe not everything that befalls this family would happen all at once, this isn&#8217;t a film that relies on unlikely and improbable events to find jokes.<br \/>\nThis is quite easily the funniest film I&#8217;ve seen this year. Thoroughly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Miss Sunshine is the debut feature of directing team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who&#8217;ve previously specialised in music videos. So does this mean that this comedy is some kind of XXX\/Fast &#038; Furious MTV edited affair? No it does not. The film has a superb cast featuring Steve Carrell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}