Sheryl's husband Richard is striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. Her gay brother, Frank, an unemployed scholar of Proust, is temporarily living with the family after having attempted suicide.
Sheryl Hoover is an overworked mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
It also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and received numerous other accolades. Arndt and Arkin won Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, and Breslin was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. The film garnered four nominations at the 79th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Little Miss Sunshine was a box office success, earning $101 million, and was praised mainly for the performances, direction, screenplay and humor. The film had a limited release in the United States on July 26, 2006, and later expanded to a wider release starting on August 18. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006, and its distribution rights were bought by Fox Searchlight Pictures for one of the biggest deals made in the history of the festival. Filming began on June 6, 2005, and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California. It was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, as members of a dysfunctional family taking the youngest to compete in a child beauty pageant. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American tragicomedy road film and the feature film directorial debut of the husband–wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
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