Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine2006

Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 101 minutes

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 Academy Award-winning dramatic comedy film about a dysfunctional family going to a childrens' beauty pageant for one of the children, Olive. Traveling together in a Volkswagen Type 2 mini-bus each of them discover cert… more »



Dwayne:
I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all of this, high school, everything.

Frank:
Do you know who Marcel Proust is?

Dwayne:
He's the guy you teach.

Frank:
Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he, uh, he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18-- ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-- those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that. "

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