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The finale takes place at the pageant, in which 6- to 7-year-old girls model swimsuits and evening wear and perform elaborate dance numbers. Olive is out-classed by the other girls' emulation of Barbie dolls, but the family reluctantly allows her to continue the competition and pursue her dream. In the talent portion, Olive scandalizes and horrifies the audience and pageant judges with a striptease-style burlesque performance (to the tune of Rick James' "Super Freak"), taught to her by Grandpa, which she performs unaware of its risque nature. When her family rises to defend her from the pageant organizers and shield her from the humiliation of being removed from the stage, the ensuing chaos brings the dysfunctional family together in a shining moment of triumph over all of the many obstacles that littered their collective journey spanning time and interstate highways. By dancing on stage together they find what is really important in life: each other.
To placate the irate pageant organizers, the family gladly agrees to their demand that Olive never ever participate in another beauty pageant in the state of California. They return to their van, push-start it, jump one by one into the side door, smash through the car park gate and head home smiling.
Information taken from IMDB.com and wikipedia.org/wiki/little_miss_sunshine

WelcomeLittle Miss Sunshine
Directors: Jonathon Dayton & Valerie Faris
Both directors have a background in making music videos for bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins, REM and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
Written by: Michael Arndt
It was his first screenplay.
Cast:
Olive – Abigail Breslin
Richard – Greg Kinnear
Dwayne – Paul Dano
Grandpa (Edwin Hoover) – Alan Arkin
Sheryl – Tony Collette
Frank – Steve Carell
Plot Summary:
Little Miss Sunshine is the story of the Hoovers, a fictional dysfunctional family from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The characters are introduced in the opening sequences: Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette), a stressed and over-worked mother of two, picks up her brother Frank (Steve Carell) at a hospital after the depressed, gay Proust scholar has recovered from a failed suicide attempt. Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear) is a manic go-getter striving to sell his motivational nine-step technique to becoming a winner. Dwayne (Paul Dano) is an angst-ridden, avowedly mute, Nietzsche-reading teenager who has dedicated his life to joining the Matamata Media Studies Wiki page. Here you will find lecture notes, handoutsUS Air Force Academy in order to become a test pilot. Richard's father, Edwin (Alan Arkin), recently evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin, is shown to have a strong bond with his seven-year-old granddaughter Olive (Abigail Breslin), and linkscoaches her to interesting resourcesperform in a child beauty pageant.
The family's tensions play out on the highway and at stops along the way, amidst the aging VW van's mechanical problems. The characters suffer setbacks: Richard's hopes for his motivational technique business sputter out; Frank encounters his ex-boyfriend who is now dating Frank's scholarly rival; Grandpa dies from a heroin overdose during the family's overnight stay at a motel; Dwayne discovers that will help supplementhe is color-blind, which means he cannot become a pilot (this causes him to speak his first line of the learningmovie); and Sheryl's obsessive manner impels her to attempt to keep everyone, including herself, calm and sane. Amidst all this, the family races to get to the pageant on time, traveling in the VW van with a broken clutch (requiring them to push-start it after every stop) and a faulty horn that won't stop honking.
The finale takes place at the pageant, in class.which 6- to 7-year-old girls model swimsuits and evening wear and perform elaborate dance numbers. Olive is out-classed by the other girls' emulation of Barbie dolls, but the family reluctantly allows her to continue the competition and pursue her dream. In the talent portion, Olive scandalizes and horrifies the audience and pageant judges with a striptease-style burlesque performance (to the tune of Rick James' "Super Freak"), taught to her by Grandpa, which she performs unaware of its risque nature. When her family rises to defend her from the pageant organizers and shield her from the humiliation of being removed from the stage, the ensuing chaos brings the dysfunctional family together in a shining moment of triumph over all of the many obstacles that littered their collective journey spanning time and interstate highways. By dancing on stage together they find what is really important in life: each other.
To placate the irate pageant organizers, the family gladly agrees to their demand that Olive never ever participate in another beauty pageant in the state of California. They return to their van, push-start it, jump one by one into the side door, smash through the car park gate and head home smiling.

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