A Comic Ray of Light ; FILM OF THE WEEK

Beginning of article

Little Miss Sunshine15)

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (101 mins) ****

STARRING Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin

I wonder why it's a movie principle that dysfunctional American families have to go on road trips in order to find out about themselves. Couldn't they do the job more conveniently at home? We know the way to healing and reconciliation is a 'journey", but does it have to be an actual journey? In the modest and endearing comedy of disappointment Little Miss Sunshine, the reasons for getting the troubled suburban family, the Hoovers, out of the house and on to the road are tenuous to the point of absurdity, yet by the end of their …