KINNEAR, CARELL, PAUL DANO, COLLETTE, AND BRESLIN
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KINNEAR, CARELL, PAUL DANO, COLLETTE, AND BRESLIN

Little Miss Sunshine

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Why we can't wait to see ''Little Miss Sunshine''

RELEASE DATE July 28

WHY WE CAN'T WAIT For those who want an alternative to the summer's big-budget epics, this comedy comes roaring out of Sundance with a busload of buzz.

THE PREMISE A squabbling extended family (led by Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear) embarks on a road trip in a rickety VW bus to take their little girl to compete in the child beauty pageant of the title.

SOURCE An original screenplay by first-time screenwriter Michael Arndt

THE BACKSTORY ''It has a sweetness,'' codirector Valerie Faris says of her film. ''If it weren't for everything I love about it — the raunchiness, the language — it would make a [great] family film!''

BURNING QUESTION Does Fox Searchlight, the studio that released Sundance pickups Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite, have another indie sleeper hit on its hands, or will this film get lost in the summer shuffle?

COME FOR The 40-Year-Old Virgin's Steve Carell, as an uncle who's a suicidal, gay Proust scholar

STAY FOR Abigail Breslin, the scene-stealing tot from Signs, whose guileless Olive may be the movie's sanest character

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