Little Miss Sunshine

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Movie
German title Little Miss Sunshine
Original title Little Miss Sunshine
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
script Michael Arndt
production Marc Turtletaub
Peter Saraf
David T. Friendly
Ron Yerxa
Albert Berger
Michael Beugg
music Mychael Danna
DeVotchKa
camera Tim Suhrstedt
cut Pamela Martin
occupation

Little Miss Sunshine is an American movie from the year 2006 . The award-winning tragicomedy with satirical elements was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris , the script was written by Michael Arndt . Big Beach Films, Third Gear Productions LLC, Deep River Productions and Bona Fide Productions produced the road movie .

action

Sheryl and Richard Hoover live in Albuquerque, in the southern United States , with their daughter Olive, Sheryl's son Dwayne, and Richard's father . Young Olive has a dream. She wants to win a beauty pageant. In the last Miss election in Albuquerque, she came in second. Her father Richard is trying to find a publisher as an author with his first work of his "Nine-Step Program - How to Become a Winner".

When Olive found out that she was subsequently awarded the victory in the New Mexico state's Little Miss Sunshine election , she wanted to travel to Los Angeles for the nationwide decision and win the competition. Together with the silent, 15-year-old brother Dwayne, who does not want to speak again until his wish to become a test pilot in the Air Force has been fulfilled, the unconventional grandfather who is also Olive's trainer, the suicidal, homosexual uncle Frank and The chubby girl sets off for her parents in a VW bus to California .

The journey in the yellow VW bus is characterized by arguments and technical difficulties, but it also brings the different actors closer to one another. When the heroin addicted grandfather dies of an overdose and the formalities that need to be dealt with threaten Olive's participation in the contest, the family decides to steal the body from the hospital and continue the journey with it. In the course of the journey, each of the actors experiences a disappointment. Dwayne, the son of Sheryl's ex-husband, discovers that he is color blind and therefore cannot become a test pilot. Uncle Frank meets the man in the middle of nowhere with whom he is unhappily in love and who drove him to attempt suicide. Richard, who, as a motivational speaker, gives lectures on achieving goals and divides people into “winners” and “losers”, learns that his book about the “nine-step program” that he has developed to help you is a “ Winner ”will not be published and so the family is in even more financial trouble than before. To make matters worse, little Olive realizes that she may not have the perfect model measurements.

The family manages to reach the competition just in time. While her competitors perform dances and songs trimmed to perfection on stage, Olive - who clearly stands out from the other participants through her childish disguise - performs a lewd striptease show that drives the conservative organizers to despair, with the exception of a former beauty queen who sits on the jury and is apparently amused and ridiculed the nature of children's beauty competitions . Olive's father is told to stop her performance and take her off the stage; instead, he decides to dance with her on stage, and the rest of the family joins them. After this scandal, Olive is banned from ever participating in a California beauty pageant, a ban the family can live with. But the shared adventure has welded the fragile family together.

Emergence

VW T2

Screenwriter Michael Arndt wrote the story for a year and wrote about a hundred drafts. He himself grew up with a VW bus and everything that is related to the car in the film happened to him and his family. Arndt showed the script to the two producers Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger . Although no one was interested at first, Yerxa and Berger were able to persuade Marc Turtletaub and David Friendly of Deep River Productions to buy the script.

Before Little Miss Sunshine, the married directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris had almost exclusively made music videos and commercials , occasionally also short films . This tragic comedy was her feature film debut. When they found out about the story, they were initially not interested; However, once they had read the script and got closer to the characters, they recognized the potential of the material and wanted to film it.

The eight million dollar realization took about five years. The production studios questioned the commercial success of the film because they feared an ensemble film by inexperienced directors and an established Hollywood star was not intended for the cast. “They look at their list of actors from A to Z and want one, at most two, main characters that they can portray on the poster. But that was not the story we wanted to tell, ”said Jonathan Dayton in an interview. The makers of the film did not want an extremely popular actor because he would have pushed the others into a corner.

Castings for the cast of Olive took place in every English-speaking country. When Abigail Breslin applied for the role, she was six years old and too small. Since shooting in Arizona and California didn't begin until two years later, she was nearly nine and had experience in several other films. The roles of Richard, Sheryl, Dwayne and the grandfather weren't a problem, but the casting of Frank with Steve Carell was. Carell, who later became known for cinema successes such as Jungfrau (40), male, sucht ... , was not yet very well known at the time and the production studios doubted that he could be an asset to the film.

Soundtrack

On June 28, 2006, Lakeshore Records released a soundtrack for the film, which contains 14 songs with a total playing time of 46:25 minutes. The music was composed by Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa . Tony Tisdale and Sufjan Stevens also contributed songs. The soundtrack for the film was released by Bodog Music Europe .

No. title Interpreter Duration
1. The Winner Is Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa 3:04
2. Til The End Of Time DeVotchKa 3:56
3. You love me DeVotchKa 4:02
4th First push Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa 1:05
5. No Man's Land Sufjan Stevens 4:47
6th let's go Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa 3:21
7th No One Gets Left Behind Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa 1:14
8th. Chicago Sufjan Stevens 6:07
9. We're gonna make it Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa 2:32
10. Do You Think There's a Heaven? Mychael Danna & DeVotchKa 1:23
11. Catwalkin ' Tony Tisdale 1:38
12. Superfreak (Roca Sound Remix) Rick James 4:13
13. La Llorona DeVotchKa 3:24
14th How it ends DeVotchKa 5:39

reception

sales

The film was screened in parts of the United States on July 26, 2006, and was released in theaters across the United States on August 18, 2006. On August 12, 2006, it celebrated its European premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival . By November 19 of the same year, the film had sales of 58 million US dollars in the USA, more than seven times the production costs. That is why Little Miss Sunshine was shown in several other countries, in German cinemas from November 30, 2006, and in Austria on the following day. Global sales reached over $ 100 million.

Little Miss Sunshine has been shown at numerous film festivals, for example at the Sundance Film Festival , which focuses on independent films , in January 2006 , where it received a standing ovation . Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the rights to the film there for over ten million dollars. This is said to have been the largest amount for film rights in the history of the festival to date. Fox then started a major advertising campaign.

Reviews

The majority of the critics received the film positively. David Rooney wrote in Variety on January 21, 2006 that Little Miss Sunshine was “[…] a quiet road-trip comedy about a grotesque, dysfunctional family that crushes the winner's typical American culture and provides a sweet release for them Loser offers [...] ”. The personalities of the family members and the actors were particularly praised by the critics. In contrast, Owen Gleiberman criticized the characters in Entertainment Weekly . They are not organic characters, they have had catalogs of script index card data put in their mouths.

German critics were also full of praise for the film. The lexicon of international films wrote of a "sympathetic song of praise to the family" and a "wonderfully imaginative comedy in the form of a subversive road movie". David Gaertner from critic.de found that the film with its "superbly constructed script ... moves beyond easy family entertainment". The Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center , which awarded the film the second best rating “Valuable”, praised “[…] the convincing play of the six protagonists as well as the fine nuances with which the deliberately intrusive cliché of the American belief in 'wanting to be the winner at any price 'is caricatured ", added, however:" The positive impression is clouded by some overly sedate opening sequences that take the story much of its pace. "The Austrian Youth Media Commission gave the film the rating" highly recommended for ages 14+ " the film was praised in particular “because of its complexity and diverse human values”.

On Rotten Tomatoes , the film got a critic rating of 7.7 out of 10 points and a user rating of 4 out of 5 points.

Trivia

With the also in Albuquerque turned US tragicomedy " Sunshine Cleaning " chose the producer Marc Turtletaub and Jeb Brody a very similar film titles.

This was also seen by Todd McCarthy, who wrote in the online version of Variety magazine on January 21, 2008 that the film Sunshine Cleaning was similar to the film Little Miss Sunshine . Young female stars Amy Adams - who has an "irresistible" screen presence - and Emily Blunt would provide his market opportunities.

In the video for the song Gib mir Sonne , the German pop duo Rosenstolz refers to this film.

Awards

The film won over 30 awards. At the 2007 Academy Awards , the film received awards for Best Supporting Actor (Alan Arkin) and Best Original Screenplay , and was nominated for Best Picture and Abigail Breslin for Best Supporting Actress . The film was also nominated twice at the Golden Globe Awards .

Other awards Little Miss Sunshine won:

The film was also successful at film festivals. He received audience awards at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián and the Tokyo International Film Festival .

The National Board of Review listed Little Miss Sunshine in the top ten films of 2006.

synchronization

For the German dubbing, which took place at RC Production Rasema Cibic , Marius Clarén wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Olive Hoover Abigail Breslin Friedel Morgenstern
Richard Hoover Greg Kinnear Bernd Vollbrecht
Sheryl Hoover Toni Collette Christin Marquitan
Dwayne Hoover Paul Dano Kim Hasper
Frank Ginsburg Steve Carell Lutz Schnell
Edwin Hoover Alan Arkin Jan Spitzer
Stan Grossman Bryan Cranston Erich Rauker
Officer McCleary Dean Norris Hans-Jürgen Wolf
Pageant Official Jenkins Beth Grant Marianne Lutz
Pageant Assistant Pam Mary Lynn Rajskub Tanja Geke
Pageant MC David Matt Winston Gerald Schaale

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Little Miss Sunshine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 676 K).
  2. ^ Age rating for Little Miss Sunshine . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The Hollywood Reporter ( Memento of May 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ): “'Closet screenwriter' Arndt comes into light”, November 17, 2006
  4. ↑ a b Netzeitung ( Memento from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ): “The family has no more security”, November 30, 2006, Patricia Batlle
  5. ↑ a b Film on Bavarian TV ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), August 13, 2006
  6. ^ EFilmCritic : "Interview with" Little Miss Sunshine "Directors Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton," Kim Voynar, July 26, 2006
  7. ^ Box Office Mojo
  8. ↑ Guardian : Little Miss Sunshine in Independent Spirit Spotlight, Nov. 29, 2006
  9. ↑ SUNDANCE: Searchlight Spends Big For “Little Miss Sunshine” ( Memento from March 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Variety ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "Little Miss Sunshine," David Rooney, Jan. 22, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  11. ^ Entertainment Weekly , "Movie Review - Little Miss Sunshine (2006)," Owen Gleiberman, July 26, 2006
  12. ↑ Little Miss Sunshine. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  13. ↑ critic.de , David Gaertner, November 9, 2006
  14. ↑ Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : “A weird catastrophe family on the way to becoming a crowd favorite? - Predicate valuable "@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fbw-filme.de  
  15. ↑ / Youth Media Commission : Positive labeling "highly recommended for ages 14 and up", accessed on February 20, 2020
  16. ↑ Little Miss Sunshine. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Variety : Film Review - "Sunshine Cleaning" by Todd McCarthy, January 21, 2008
  18. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Little Miss Sunshine. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .

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