Little Miss Sunshine Page #6

Synopsis: In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl's husband Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne's grandfather Edwin was sent away from the institution for elders (Sunset Manor) and is addicted in heroin. When her seven-year-old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream co
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Production: Fox Searchlight
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 68 wins & 107 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2006
101 min
$59,831,476
Website
6,155 Views


Now, I believe we'd be doing

a grave disservice to his memory...

if we were to just give up now.

All right? There's two kinds

of people in this world.

There's winners and there's losers. Okay?

You know what the difference is?

Winners don't give up.

So what are we here?

Are we winners, or are we losers?

Huh?

Okay, okay, okay.

Let's do it.

You guys go. Olive,

you watch the curtain.

[ Chattering On P.A.]

I don't know. I have no reason

to assume it's gonna be otherwise.

Watch. Get the back.

Get the back.

Shh. Go, go, go.

- [ Siren Wailing ]

- Yeah, 1:
00.

[ Woman On Line,

Indistinct ]

Now?

- He's very heavy. Be gentle.

- Mm-hmm.

[ Richard ]

Now!

[ Sheryl ]

One, two-

Okay, three.

Wait, wait, wait!

- Not yet. Not yet.

- [ Men Chattering ]

- Okay, go. Go, go, go.

- Shh, shh, shh. Okay.

[ Sheryl ]

Richard, I can't do it!

- I got him. I got him.

- Come on.

Come on!

Hurry up!

[ Grunts ]

Okay, he's slipping.

Okay.

- Hold on.

- [ Grunting ]

[ Frank ] I got it. I got it.

I got it. I got it.

[ Grunting ]

Be careful.

- [ Frank ] Be cool. Be cool.

- [ Olive ] Hurry up.

Keep watch, Olive.

Watch the curb.

Watch the curb.

[ Panting ]

Watch his head!

Watch it!

- [ Grunts ]

- Keys.

Swing him around this way.

- [ Sheryl ] Olive, get in.

- Here we go.

Okay, let's go.

[ Richard ]

Sheryl. Let's go, Frank.

Did I mention that I am the preeminent

Proust scholar in the U.S.?

[ Groans ]

Here we go! Here we go!

[ Sheryl ]

Are you okay?

- [ Olive ] Dad?

- Yeah, honey?

What's gonna happen to Grandpa?

Uncle Frank?

Yeah?

Do you think there's a heaven?

That's hard to say, Olive.

L- I don't think anyone knows for sure.

I know, but what do you think?

Um, well-

I think there is one.

- You think I'll get in?

- Yes.

- Promise?

- Yes.

- Whoa! Hey! Son of a b*tch!

- [ Horn Honking ]

- What happened?

- He- He cut me off.

[ Honking Continues ]

- It's stuck.

- [ Sheryl ] Okay, just leave it.

It's stuck or something.

[ Groans ]

- Maybe-Try pulling it from under here.

- No, no. Just leave it.

- Fix it when we get there.

- Okay, fine.

Sh*t!

[ Siren Wailing ]

Oh, Jesus! God!

I'm being pulled over.

Here we go.

Okay. Everybody just

pretend to be normal, okay?

Like-Like everything's normal here.

[ Honking Continues

Intermittently, Weakly ]

[ Fist Slams ]

How you folks doin'?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we're fine.

Just- [ Grunts ]

- Little trouble with the horn?

- Sorry. What?

- Havin' a little trouble with your horn?

- Yeah.

Little trouble. Sorry.

Uh, sorry.

Could you step outside

the vehicle?

[ Honking Continues ]

- Step this way, please.

- No, no.

- What?

- Don't-

"Don't" what?

- Do you have something in your trunk, sir?

- It's nothing. L-

- Don't- Don't open it.

- You've just given me probable

cause to search your trunk.

- Just- l- I just-

- Put your hands on the vehicle now! Now!

- Don't move.

- Okay.

- It's not illegal!

- Sir, I would advise you to keep your mouth shut!

Oh, my God.

What is he doing?

- It's not illegal.

- Goddamn.

Sir, could you come back here?

[ Chuckles ]

I love this stuff. I love it.

God bless ya.

God bless ya.

Don't worry.

I'm not gonna bust ya.

- Oh, thank you.

- [ Chuckles ]

How you doin'?

[ Chuckles ]

- Cute- Cute family. That's nice.

- Thank you.

- This on the side. A little

of this, a little of that.

- It's-

- Oh, man.

- Sweet- Sweetness.

That is sweet. Yeah.

- Dirty.

- And this one is one of my favorites.

Ahh, good, yeah.

That's a little different choice.

No?

- Gonna leave that with ya.

- All right.

- You have a good day there.

- Yeah.

[ Honking Continues ]

What happened?

- I'll tell you when I regain consciousness.

- [ Motorcycle Engine Rewing ]

Frank, Dwayne, get out and push.

[ All Grunting ]

- Okay, there it is- Redondo Beach, 46.

- [ Honking Continues ]

It's 2:
15.

Might be a few minutes late.

They said 3:
00 sharp. They were very explicit.

We can't cross these people. Trust me.

- Mom, Dwayne has 20/20 vision.

- I bet he does.

- [ Honking Continues ]

- Okay, now I'm gonna check

to see if you're color blind.

- [ Vehicle Horn Honks ]

- [ Man ] A**hole!

- [ Mouthing Words ]

- What's the letter in the circle?

No, no, no.

Inside the circle.

Right there. See?

It's an "A." Can't you see it?

Right there.

It's bright green.

Oh, man.

[ Sighs ] Dwayne, I think you

might be color blind.

You can't fly jets

if you're color blind.

We've got a little bit of-

Okay, got an emergency back here.

- I think we need to pull over.

- What is it?

- What's the emergency?

- Pull over.

It's all right, man. Dwayne, Dwayne!

It's all right. Hold on.

- Just pull over the car!

- Okay! All right!

- Could you get him to pull over, please?

- Richard, pull over!

- Richard, pull over the car!

- It's all right. We're pulling over.

- I'm pulling over. Stop it.

- It's all right.

- Dwayne! No, no. Dwayne. Sit down.

- God, this better be good.

- [ Sheryl ] Pull over.

- [ Richard ] I'm pulling over. All right.

- Stop the car. It's gonna be okay, Dwayne.

- All right. Don't open the door.

[ Sheryl ]

Dwayne? Oh, God!

[ Gasping ]

F***!

[ Screams ]

- [ Sheryl ] What happened?

- [ Frank ] He's color blind. He can't fly.

[ Sheryl ]

Oh, Jesus. Oh, no.

[ Sobbing ]

Uh, just-

just give him a second.

Dwayne?

Dwayne, honey, I'm sorry.

- Dwayne, come on. We have to go.

- I'm not going.

- Dwayne-

- I said I'm not.

Okay? I don't care.

I'm not getting on that bus again.

Dwayne, for better or worse,

we're your family.

No, you're not my family!

Okay? I don't wanna be your family!

I hate you f***ing people!

I hate you!

Divorce, bankrupt, suicide!

You f***ing losers!

You're losers!

No. Please

just leave me here, Mom.

Okay?

Please, please, please.

Please just leave me here.

[ Sighs ]

Sh*t.

I don't know what to do.

[ Richard ]

Well, it's gettin'late.

Maybe- Can somebody

stay here with him?

- I'll stay.

- Oh, that is not happening.

All right. Well...

uh...

I'm just worried about the time.

Olive, you, uh-

you wanna try talking to him?

Richard, no! There is nothing to say.

We just have to wait.

Honey-

[ Sighs ]

Okay.

Let's go.

I apologize for the things I said.

I was upset.

I didn't really mean them.

It's okay. Come on.

[ Sniffles ] Let's go.

- [ Honking Continues ]

- [ Richard ] 2:
55.

All right. Everybody,

look for the exit, okay?

Okay, here! Here's the turnoff.

Turn in here.

Does anybody see

the Redondo Suites?

- [ Olive ] There's the hotel!

- There it is! There it is, Olive.

We're gonna make it.

We're gonna make it. All right.

How- How the hell

do you get over there?

- Sheryl?

- No, no, no, no!

- [ Olive ] You're passing it!

- [ Sheryl ] Turn around, turn around.

- You drove past it!

- You've gotta turn around!

- It's back there!

- I can't turn around.

- Anybody see a way back? It's a one-way street!

- Oh!

- [ Grunting ]

- Rich! You've got parking lots on the right!

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Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3. This made Arndt the first screenwriter ever to be nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays. He has also been credited under the pseudonyms Michael deBruyn and Rick Kerb, which are mainly used for script revisions. more…

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