{"id":426,"date":"2007-01-22T15:47:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/22\/dvd-pick-for-monday-22nd-january\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T15:47:31","slug":"dvd-pick-for-monday-22nd-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/01\/22\/dvd-pick-for-monday-22nd-january\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Pick for Monday 22nd January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0449059\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Little Miss Sunshine<\/span><\/a> is the real word of mouth success of the past year. Since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival (almost exactly a year ago) it has won audiences and critics over with its charming brand of bittersweet comedy. It follows a dysfunctional family from Albuquerque as they drive to California in order to take their young daughter (Abigail <span class=\"misspell\">Breslin<\/span>) to a beauty pageant. A pushy father (Greg <span class=\"misspell\">Kinnear<\/span>), a stressed mother (Toni Collete), a depressed Proust scholar (Steve Carell) and a foul mouthed grandpa (Alan <span class=\"misspell\">Arkin<\/span>) all form the rich bag of misfits  in the film.<\/p>\n<p>First time directors <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Dayton_and_Valerie_Faris\">Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris<\/a> manage to create a genuinely charming comedy whilst avoiding easy cliches and schmaltz. It also neatly breaks a taboo of US pop culture in that it actually celebrates losers, rather than turning them in to bland success stories. Watch out for it at the BAFTAs and Oscars &#8211; it might not be this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crash_%282004_film%29#Awards\">Crash<\/a> but it could certainly be a strong dark horse candidate.<\/p>\n<p>> <a title=\"Check out reviews of the film at Metacritic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/littlemisssunshine\">Check out reviews of the film at Metacritic<\/a><br \/>\n> <a title=\"Buy the DVD from Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000JU9OJ4\/202-3115911-5646216?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=filmdetail-21&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creativeASIN=B000JU9OJ4\">Buy the DVD from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Miss Sunshine is the real word of mouth success of the past year. Since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival (almost exactly a year ago) it has won audiences and critics over with its charming brand of bittersweet comedy. It follows a dysfunctional family from Albuquerque as they drive to California in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}