The recent weather has me eager for spring and ready to fill my brain with sunshine.
As my way of curing my spring fever, I have been repetitively watching Little Miss Sunshine. Though the plot isn't outstanding, it's the characters that cause me to keep pressing play.
1. Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) - She is quite possibly the ugliest cute little girl I've ever seen. Olive becomes the catalyst of the entire movie after finding out her status of runner up in a beauty pageant has been bumped to winner status. Her determination is admirable as well as her performance to Super Freak.
2. Grandpa Edwin Hoover (Alan Arkin) - He is my absolute favorite character despite his heroin addiction, distaste for chicken and hip-pack. The sheer fact that he coaches Olive in her pageant training while simultaneously managing to pull off a biker vest with floral print shirts never fails to brighten my day. Not to mention that his amazing growling technique deserves an 'A.'
3. Dwayne (Paul Dano) - He may have the fewest lines in the movie, but with his notepad alone he manages to provide many laughs. After he finds out he is color blind and breaks his vow of silence, he provides
plenty of much-needed teen angst.
4. Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell) - Carell plays the crazy uncle to perfection. His obsession with his lost love interest and grant from the MacArthur Foundation gives him a first class ticket on the crazy bus.
5. Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear) - Hoover is so callous and self-involved with his regular speeches about his nine steps to success. He becomes the walking contradiction of the movie because he cannot even force interest in his nine steps, let alone use them to be successful in his own life.
6. Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette) - She's the glue that holds the family together like any good mother. Though viewers don't learn much about her character, she does manage to break the Volkswagen bus, which is comical enough to classify the bus as its own character.
Personally, I can't get enough of this movie. Though, by this point in the year, I have probably watched it enough that I count Volkswagen buses to fall asleep at night rather than sheep.
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Anna Hartenbach
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