Sommerkino: OV Little Miss Sunshine

In the organizer's words:

Comedy about an eccentric, chaotic family that was one of the biggest success stories at the Sundance Film Festival.

Olive's (Abigail Breslin) father is an all-round failed motivational speaker, her uncle is suicidal and her brother no longer speaks. The drug-addicted grandpa still makes the most normal impression. At least he passionately supports Olive in practicing for the Little Miss Sunshine Beauty Contest. In order to fulfill the little girl's dream, the whole bunch of them squeeze into the car for the road trip to California.
Sympathy for the underdog characterizes this sometimes surreal family comedy and critical appraisal of American beauty contests, with which the directing pair Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris earned great applause at festivals.
Seven-year-old Olive dreams of becoming "Little Miss Sunshine". When she is invited to this Young Miss competition, she accompanies her whole family to California. Although the road is marked by disasters and the family by problems, the road trip welds the chaotic clan together when the chubby little outsider meets drilled and styled nightmare kids at the competition.
Chubby little Olive has a big dream: she wants to become "Little Miss Sunshine". When the girl is actually invited to take part in this Young Miss competition, her chaotic, quarrelsome family embarks on a crazy trip to California. When the outsider meets high-bred and stylish "model kids" at the competition, all the clan members throw their differences of opinion overboard and finally start to pull together and reflect on their inner values.