Pile together a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. That formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious study of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for a weekend trek to L.A. in order to get moppet daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Much of the pleasure of this journey comes from watching some skillful comic actors doing their thing: Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as the parents (he's hoping to become a self-help authority), Alan Arkin as a grandfather all too willing to give uproariously inappropriate advice to a sullen teenage grandson (Paul Dano), and a subdued Steve Carell as a jilted gay professor on the verge of suicide. The film is a crowd-pleaser, and if anything is a little too eager to bend itself in the direction of quirk-loving Sundance audiences; it can feel forced. But the breezy momentum and the ingenious actors help push the material over any bumps in the road.-- Robert Horton
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Customer Review: fun
Now this film is a bit on the odd ball side, it is funny, and I like it, I don't think it was Oscar worthy, but then I didn't think the Movie "Babe" ( the pig one ) was best Movie and it won, "Apollo 13" was much better for that yrs Oscar, but Hollywod didn't want Tom Hanks to have 3 in a row..politics...lol Anyway as I was saying it's a cute film but NOT for kids.....The "F" word is used a lot.
Customer Review: Little Miss Sunshine
This movie turned out to be a sleeper! It started out slow and I wandered if I hadn't made a mistake. As the movie continued I started laughing and didn't stop till the end. The ending also touched my heart for the underdogs of this world. You didn't know whether to cry or laugh. This is why I purchased this movie. I own very few dvd's. Another good movie I highly recommend is "Secondhand Lions" with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine. This movie is also like "Little Miss Sunshine" in that it will make you laugh and cry.
While growing up, my family always had a white KitchenAid mixer sitting on our counter. It normally had a cloth cover on it. My mom used it all the time to make cookies & red velvet cakes. Honestly, I didnt think much of it, but she always referred to it as her KitchenAid rather than her mixer.
When I was 12 years old, my parents separated. My mom moved out and took little with her, but she did take her KitchenAid mixer. Thats when I really noticed the void. I liked to make cookies. I talked my dad into buying a cheap mixer. We bought a couple second hand mixers. They both broke. Needless to say, I didnt make many cookies.
Eventually my dad remarried and his new wife had a white KitchenAid mixer just like my moms.
When I got engaged it was fun to go do the little wedding registry thing. We only registered at one store. I believe it was the now bought-out ZCMI. My wife put a cobalt blue KitchenAid stand mixer on the list. She explained to me all that she had in her hope chest and that her kitchen would always be navy blue and yellow.
I have a grandma that gives a KitchenAid mixer to every granddaughter or grandson that gets married. We were no exception. It is always a white one though. So we simple went to ZCMI and exchanged it for the cobalt blue one to go with my wifes kitchen colors.
All my brothers and sisters own a KitchenAid mixer. My parents and grandparents all own a KitchenAid mixer, with the exception of my fathers parents who never really baked anything come to think of it. My wifes family is the same way. Her mother and grandmother both have the BIG KitchenAid mixers and her sisters also own KitchenAid mixers.
KitchenAid has become the de facto standard for stand mixers and Im sure the tradition will continue with our kids.
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