If you're the type of person who likes dry humor, you're gonna like Little Miss Sunshine. If you're the type of person who doesn't mind politically incorrect humor, you're gonna like Little Miss Sunshine. If you're the type of person who enjoys watching a family of five sneak out the corpse of their dead grandfather through a hospital window, you're gonna like Little Miss Sunshine.

With a stunning cast of characters including Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, and Little Miss Sunshine herself, Abigail Breslin, this movie defines the term "dysfunctional family."

Olive (Breslin) has just been accepted to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine Pageant in Redondo Beach, California. Accompanied by her life coach father Richard (Kinnear), her All-American mom Sheryl (Toni Collette), her homosexual and suicidal uncle Frank (Carell), her purposefully mute older brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), and her cocaine sniffing grandfather (Alan Arkin), Olive starts a cross state trip to Cali in her family's yellow Volkswagen van.

Encountering such problems as broken gear shifts, malfunctioning car horns, and endless petty arguments, the family is simply trying to make it through the road trip with all of their sanity still intact; a feat that certainly provokes quite a bit of laughter. It's easy to appreciate their struggle, because everyone has those moments in their lives where everything feels like its spinning down the toilet. As well as those moments when all your family does for you is make things worse.