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...Little Miss Sunshine, I believe, made a valiant attempt. Halfway through watching the film, I remembered that nothing in the calculated world of Hollywood (or, for that matter, in the quirky land of independent film) is random. Aside from the darling Olive (Abigail Breslin), Frank is really the heart of this sweet film, and it turns out to be perfectly fitting that he has devoted his heretofore empty life to Marcel Proust. Frank's associations with Proust are only mentioned here and there (he likes to remind the family that he is a renowned Proust scholar while he's helping...
Grandpa (Alan Arkin) does heroin. Dad (Greg Kinnear) hopes to become a motivational guru with a dreary nine-step program that asks people to banish their inner losers. Chubby little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a prepubescent beauty queen, the Little Miss Sunshine of the title. That goal is not particularly advanced by her brother (Paul Dano) or her uncle (Steve Carell), a Proust scholar coming off a suicide attempt. Mom (Toni Collette) is loving but too distracted to cook. At the Hoover house in Albuquerque, N.M., it's all KFC all the time...
...really all Allen’s fault. The presence of his human or canine self seems to cause any scene to implode. However, his wife (Kristin Davis, “Sex & the City”) and children (Zena Grey and Spencer Breslin) turn in decent performances when their doggy hubby/daddy leaves to pursue one of his delusional, tangential quests...
...marshals are trained to deal with abnormal behavior. But the airline crew did not know about Alpizar's condition, and Denis Breslin, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, suggests that Buechner's cries about her husband's illness could have been a ploy to distract the air marshals. "They are trained to make a split-second decision. They don't have time to second-guess," says Representative John Mica of Florida, who chairs the House subcommittee on aviation. "I think they acted absolutely appropriately...
...Breslin said he was also impressed by the Cookie Monsters’ “very creative, very nice” use of a crispy rice patty...