Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is the best movie I've seen in a long time. It's about your typical dysfunctional family trying to hold it all together. The daughter, Olive, wants to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant but does not look or act like your typical little-kid pageant contestant (no overstyled hair, ladeled-on makeup, phony smile, etc.). She's just a regular kid.

Then there is her uncle, fresh out of the hospital after a suicide attempt, her stepbrother who doesn't speak, her grandfather who got kicked out of his retirement community for snorting heroin. You get the idea. The characters are well developed. Edgy but believable. And at the end, the stories wrap up well but without a typcial Hollywood ending in which every "i" is dotted and every "t" crossed and the moral of the story is practically printed on the screen. I can't really say much more about the movie or I'll spoil it. It is touching and funny and worth a full-price ticket at the movie theater!