2. 《陽光小美女》 Little Miss Sunshine
Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette) is an overworked mother of two children who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her brother Frank (Steve Carell) is a gay scholar of French author Marcel Proust, temporarily living at home with the family after a suicide attempt. Her husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) is striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. Dwayne (Paul Dano), Sheryl's son from a previous marriage, is an unhappy teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of getting into the US Air Force Academy in order to become a test pilot. Richard's foul-mouthed father, Edwin (Alan Arkin), a World War II veteran recently evicted from a retirement home for using and sellingheroin, lives with the family. He is close with his seven-year-old granddaughter.
7歲的奧利芙,戴眼鏡,小肚腩,做一夜成名的美夢,堅信自己有朝一日能當選美國小姐。爸爸,推銷成功學課程的講師,相信“世界上只有兩種人,成功者和失敗者”,四處販賣他的“成功九部曲”;哥哥,自閉男,崇拜尼采,為了考上飛行學院發啞誓,九個月沒有同家人說話;舅舅,自稱是美國最好的普魯斯特研究學者,同性戀,戀人和同事跑掉、失業,自殺未遂,生活混亂;爺爺(阿蘭·阿爾金 飾),被養老院趕出來的老流氓,滿嘴臟話、吸毒;媽媽,是這個瘋狂家庭唯一正常的人。在家人的支持下,奧利芙參加了“陽光小美女”的選美比賽,一家人踏上了集體尋夢的旅程。奧利芙能否如愿當選?家庭成員們怎樣才能度過他們各自的危機?
推薦理由:如果要選一個最最陽光的蘿莉,阿比蓋爾·布萊斯林飾演的《陽光小美女》絕對是首選。并不是因為這部影片中有“陽光”,而是因為陽光就在她的笑容里。