Little Miss Sunshine May 2026

The overworked matriarch and "pro-honesty" anchor trying to hold the fractured family together.

A foul-mouthed, heroin-using veteran who coaches Olive’s pageant routine. His sudden death during the trip raises the stakes, leading the family to "kidnap" his body from the hospital to ensure Olive makes it to the pageant on time. Little Miss Sunshine

A Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can join the Air Force Academy—only to discover mid-trip that he is colorblind. The overworked matriarch and "pro-honesty" anchor trying to

A suicidal Proust scholar living with the family after a personal and professional collapse. Little Miss Sunshine

A struggling motivational speaker obsessed with his "9-step program to success." He views the world through a binary lens of "winners" and "losers".