Last seen here, Little Miss Sunshine is an exceptional film, from Michael Arndt's Oscar and BAFTA winning screenplay on. (The silence of Paul Dano is a useful ploy for showing how he and Steve Carell's alliance forms.) It's a brilliantly directed (David Lean award nominee), photographed (Tim Suhrstedt) and edited (Pamela Martin), using the full width of the widescreen really well and catching the ballet of the eyes between characters.
What an ensemble cast too: Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carrell (one of his best performances).
Absolutely loved the way the malfunctioning horn almost becomes a character - is there at the very last crash through a closed car park barrier, and into the fade out.
Only comment is that the actual Miss Sunshine contest is entirely dubious and suspect.
Props as plot points: the eyesight test Abigail picks up at hospital...
The (married) couple began making pop videos and commercials - this was their first feature.
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