Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine was the link movie connecting Mickey 17 and As Good as It Gets.
Linked through Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear.
Both Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear appeared in Little Miss Sunshine.
About Little Miss Sunshine
"A family on the verge of a breakdown."
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Directed by Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
Written by Michael Arndt
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The film received four nominations at the 79th Academy Awards including Best Picture; Michael Arndt won Best Original Screenplay and Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor, while Abigail Breslin was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. It also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast, and the Producers Guild Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture.
Soundtrack
Score by DeVotchKa
The score was by Denver band DeVotchKa and composer Mychael Danna, recorded and mixed by Brad Haehnel at Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles. Performed by DeVotchKa, much of the music was adapted from their pre-existing songs, including material from the album How It Ends and La Llorona from Una Volta.
Movie trivia
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Little Miss Sunshine was the feature directorial debut of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, adapted from a screenplay by Michael Arndt.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the film's distribution rights at Sundance after its January 20, 2006 premiere in one of the biggest deals in the festival's history.
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Casting directors Kim Davis and Justine Baddeley searched every English-speaking country for the role of Olive and ultimately chose Abigail Breslin at an audition when she was six.
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Paul Dano was cast as Dwayne two years before production and spent several days taking a personal vow of silence to prepare for the role.
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Marc Turtletaub purchased Arndt's screenplay for $250,000 on December 21, 2001; after Focus Features dropped the project, he paid $400,000 to buy back the rights and financed the film's $8 million budget.
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Five Volkswagen T2 Microbuses were used for the family van: three were operational and two were trailer-mounted, and many of the van problems in the plot were drawn from Arndt's childhood trip in a similar vehicle.
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