Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

The Hoover family — a man (Greg Kinnear), his wife (Toni Collette), an uncle (Steve Carell), a brother (Paul Dano) and a grandfather (Alan Arkin) — puts the fun back in dysfunctional by piling into a VW bus and heading to California to support a daughter (Abigail Breslin) in her bid to win the Little Miss Sunshine Contest. The sanity of everyone involved is stretched to the limit as the group’s quirks cause epic problems as they travel along their interstate route.

You’ll be delighted, if a bit breathless from laughing, to be along for the ride. – San Francisco Chronicle

Little Miss Sunshine is an enchanting anthem to loserdom — a dark comedy that piles on setback after setback and yet never loses its helium. – New York Magazine