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Olive is different from the other beauty pageant girls in that she doesn't adhere to the typical beauty pageant contestant.

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Olive is different from the other beauty pageant girls in that she doesn't adhere to the typical beauty pageant contestant.

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'Sarcasm is just the sour grapes of losers trying to pull winners down to their level.' - Richard

'A real loser is someone that is so afraid of not winning that they don't even try'. - Grandpa Edwin.

'There are two types of people in this world, winners and losers'. - Richard.

Olive 'lost' the pageant - she was disqualified because of risqué dance routine. However she succeeded in the way she brought her family closer together.

'Its not about luck, Frank. Luck is the name losers give to their own failings. Its about wanting to win. Willing yourself to win. You got to want it badder than anybody else.

Richard often brought up his theory about winners and losers as well as his nine step program to become a winner.

Olive is strong and ignores her dad and eats the ice cream after being told that ice cream becomes fat on your body.

Grandpa Edwin is living his life philosophy by taking drugs and such because he is going to die anyway. Therefore the way he is living his limited time is a win in his eyes.

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Dwayne shows immense discipline.
-Olive truly believes that she can win the pageant.
-Olive doesn't let the pageant standards  stop her from performing and doing what she enjoys.
-Dwayne doesn't let him being colour-blind stop his motivations for being a fighter pilot.

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The family all join Olive onstage at the pageant, showing their support for her and encouraging her to be herself. This shows that they can all be very mature when it comes to their family.

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olive loses innocence when she starts comparing herself to others/stereotypical beauty standards.

Sherryl is at a loss of innocence every time she tries to keep Olive from hearing the negative comments the other family members make because she always end up giving up and lets her hear

dwayne loses innocence when he has a breakdown and realises the harsh reality of life (that not all dreams can come true)

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The Hoover family are outsiders compared to the average beauty contestant family

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Little Miss Sunshine depicts a dysfunctional family with each  member of the family having their own challenges. Despite the family living together they're vastly distant from eachother. 

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Little Miss Sunshine depicts a dysfunctional family with each  member of the family having their own challenges. Despite the family living together they're vastly distant from eachother. 

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Olive sees herself as a fat and unattractive girl, but in reality she just isn't the traditional beauty pageant

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Sheryl's role is to keep the family together physically and emotionally. She supports Dwaynes decision to not speak and Olives dream to win the beauty competition. she picks up Frank from the hospital and try's to makes him feel at home.

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Sheryl's role is to keep the family together physically and emotionally. She supports Dwaynes decision to not speak and Olives dream to win the beauty competition. she picks up Frank from the hospital and try's to makes him feel at home.

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Richard is Obsessed with winning that he gains a fear of losing

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Richard is Obsessed with winning that he gains a fear of losing

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The van symbolizes the family and that they need mutual collaboration to succeed.

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The van symbolizes the family and that they need mutual collaboration to succeed.

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This is hard for the family as they are on the edge of a breakdown - just as the van is breaking down.

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Dwayne fears for the safety of his sister Olive at the Pagaent

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Dwayne fears for the safety of his sister Olive at the Pagaent

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the family seems very dysfunctional but they are really a very tight unit and are also very supportive of each other

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"No! I'm madly in love with you and its not just because of your brains and personalty. its because you're beautiful - inside and out." grandpa Edwin.

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The broken up and beaten van emphasizes that the family has taken 'emotional beatings'  

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The broken up and beaten van emphasizes that the family has taken 'emotional beatings'  

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Richard is disillusioned by his nine step program.
He is so obsessed with winning that he begins to taunt the rest of the family because they aren't perfect. EG: allowing Olive to believe that she will become fat and lose the pageant if she eats ice-cream.
Richard later becomes a winner once he realises that his relationship with his family is of more value then the success of his nine step program.

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when they got pulled over by the cops because the horn was malfunctioning and they were hiding grandpas body in the back but the cop only saw a family and that Richard had some porn mags

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Frank is an outsider because he is gay and fell in love with one of his grad students and he didn't feel accepted

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Edwin's role is to support olive and help her with her routine for the Beauty competition. He also says that ''she is the most beautiful girl in the world''.  He also acts as the family asshole that everyone loves but hates at the same time.

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Edwin's role is to support olive and help her with her routine for the Beauty competition. He also says that ''she is the most beautiful girl in the world''.  He also acts as the family asshole that everyone loves but hates at the same time.

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Sheryl fears Richard's 9 step plan will fail

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Sheryl fears Richard's 9 step plan will fail

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The Hoover family come together and discover that they do not need to be 'normal' or 'fit in' to society. This realisation comes after seeing the fakeness of the beauty pageant. 

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The Hoover family come together and discover that they do not need to be 'normal' or 'fit in' to society. This realisation comes after seeing the fakeness of the beauty pageant. 

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"everyone, just pretend to be normal" -  Richard

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The family fears they will be caught with Grandpa's dead body in the Combi Van

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The family fears they will be caught with Grandpa's dead body in the Combi Van

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Olives role contributes to keeping the family together. Olive also support Dwayne when he has his emotional break down

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Olives role contributes to keeping the family together. Olive also support Dwayne when he has his emotional break down

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Frank is trying to escape his past life and his old lover by committing suicide

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'Everyone, just pretend to be normal'. Richard says this 

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'Everyone, just pretend to be normal'. Richard says this 

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The family all learn to work together by the end of the film, compared to the start when all they seem to do is fight

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Richard is an outsider because he is trying to sell his '9 steps program' but cant get anyone to buy it because no one has heard of him.

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Frank tries to escape the convenient store when his ex comes in.

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at the beginning of the movie Frank sees Dwanye as a weird, depressed kid. but after many events Frank finally sees Dwayne as really smart, influential and knowledgeable

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Edwin is trying to escape his old age taking up "hobbies" like snorting heroin and pornographic magazines.

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Dwayne is an outsider because he has no friends and does not talk.

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the Hoovers all have an unrealistic goal in mind, such as olive becoming miss USA or Richard becoming a famous motivational speaker.

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Frank accepts the reality that he is in the world for a reason.

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Frank deals with many situations and suicidal thoughts that help him grow up mentally

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Sheryl tries to escape the hassels of family life by taking up smoking cigarettes.

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frank is the most successful Proust scholar in the country but is also suicidal because of his broken heart.

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the glamour of the pageant vs what it actually is.

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Olive- "Am I pretty?!

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"Grandpa I don't want to be a loser" (Olive)

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"Grandpa I don't want to be a loser" (Olive)

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Dwayne taking a vow of silence is him trying to escape his life

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Dwayne is afraid of not becoming a pilot

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Dwayne is afraid of not becoming a pilot

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Richards role is him trying to support the family financially yet constantly letting them down. 

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Richards role is him trying to support the family financially yet constantly letting them down. 

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When Olive loses the competition, it helps open her eyes to the reality that maybe she isn't cut out to be a beauty queen.

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Edwin is an outsider in his nursing home because he was such a womanizer and had a drug addiction

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Edwin's death inspires maturity among the family

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Richard "everyone, just pretend to be normal"

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Richard "everyone, just pretend to be normal"

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Dwayne eventually accepts that he is unable to become a test pilot

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sheryl is an outsider in her own family as she is the only one who makes money and smokes in secret

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Olive learns of life's challenges and injustices