Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama film about a dysfunctional family road-tripping to a children's beauty pageant.

The phrase has become shorthand for someone relentlessly cheerful or optimistic, often used sarcastically: OK, Little Miss Sunshine, not everyone wakes up this happy.

Opposites
tone and emotional register

Little Miss SunshineLeaving Las Vegas

Abandoning the Nevada strip

The Road · Precious · Melancholia · The Mist · Revolutionary Road

film production and aesthetic

Little Miss SunshineTransformers

Franchise about morphing robots

The Avengers · Avatar · Pirates of the Caribbean · Independence Day · Jurassic World

family portrayal

Little Miss SunshineAmerican Beauty

Heirloom rose cultivar

Interiors · The Royal Tenenbaums

Family

little, littler, littlest, misses, missed, missing, sunshine, sunnier, sunniest

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG