Add Steve Carrell's character in Little Miss Sunshine to the ongoing history of celluloid literature professors. Saw this flick last night and loved it, not just for Carrell's sympathetic melancholy academic, but for the whole panoply of dysfunctional--but kindhearted--family types the film offers. Abigail Breslin as the seven year-old competing for the beauty pageant honor named in the film's title is the most moving child actor (with none of drunk-driver Haley Joel Osment's maudlin puckering) since Paper Moon-era Tatum O'Neal.
And the film's finale is choice--an appropriate, but laugh-worthy, commentary on the grotesqueness of child beauty contests.
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I so want to see this movie!
"I'm the pre-eminent Proust scholar in the county."
I can see the tshirts already.
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