Saturday Laugh Fest with The Girls...

Plot Summary for
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Summary written by Jim Beaver {Internet Movie Data Base}

Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Her uncle Frank, a renowned Proust scholar, has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence, which allows him to escape somewhat from the family whose very presence torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-well with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in far off California

MY DAY IN REVIEW:

I haven't laughed this hard at a movie in...well...I can't recall how long it has been! Not recomended for children under 16 because the topics will prompt conversations, and the language is very, very colorful!!! Initially the movie sets more of somber tone, which hooks you into caring about the main characters, then 'life happens' and that's when the story becomes both bleak and optimistic, funny and sad, brave and bold, moreover, the acting was superb. You didn't feel as though you were watching actors but getting an inside glimpse to a frazzled family. Okay, okay...enough about the movie...but I really enjoyed my belly laughs!

It was a 'feel good day' partly, because today I met with 6 other 'girls' that I worked with for ten years and we are able to get together every 1 1/2-2 years or so. A couple of the ladies I see on a regular basis, everyone else's schedule doesn't permit. The seven of us watched the movie, laughed a lot, then went to lunch and laughed some more, shared some of our recent happenings, (but you know when you get 7 women together at one time you have at least 4-5 conversations going on simultaneously ), however, we reminisced about some of the fun times, we griped about some of the monotonous tasks, but mostly discussed some the things we missed about working together. All in all, with the movie and lunch we spent 4 hours together, assuring one another we will do this again soon...I just have to say, "I'll believe it when I see it, but I hope we manage to do this again soon!"