little miss sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is a movie about a little girl named olive who really wants to be in beauty pageants. Olive comes from a lower middle class family and the last thing they want to do is drive their eight year old daughter across the country to a pageant she got accepted into. But they do it anyways. They are also not a very happy family. Olive’s mom’s brother tried to commit suicide but failed so now he is in rehab and has to stay with their family until he gets better, so he is all depressed. Olives father Richard is a rude man who only cares about his business and being a winner even though he is a pretty big loser. The threes olives brother who is taking an oath of silence until he becomes a jet pilot in the navy so he hasn’t talked in a long time. Last but not least there is Olive’s grandfather who is addicted to heroin but probably the only person who actually cares about Olive and her pageants. The whole movie is about them taking a trip across the country and the problems they come across. First of all their van doesn’t start unless you give it a push then start it up. Also when they stop at a hotel over night the next morning Olives grandpa wouldn’t wake up so they took him to a hospital and they pronounced him dead. They didn’t have time to drive back to their own house or stay in the state and fill out the death certificate so they took him with them in their trunk. Later the dad honks the horn but the horn wouldn’t stop honking so they had to drive down the highway with the horn going. Because of that a police pulled them over and the police went to check the trunk but luckily he didn’t notice the dead body (I don’t know how). Another thing is while there at the hospital Olive picked up some tests to see if your color blind and her brother took the test and failed. You can’t be a jet pilot if your color blind so he has a melt down and finally talks. They finally got to the competition and Olive since she is kind of chunky and ugly she had no clue what she was doing on stage. She embarrassed the family at first with her dance UT then they embraced it and got on stage with her. Unfortunately they got kicked out of the pageant and banned from ever being in another pageant in the state of California. They were kind of upset at first but then they realized it’s not a big deal and were just happy to be a family. They got really close because of the trip and so it was a good thing they traveled all the way out there. ( word count 490)