Little Miss Sunshine The film , Little Miss Sunshine , is the story of the Hoover family, the most imperfect and dysfunctional family you could possibly imagine. The daughter, Olive, signs up for a beauty pageant in California, and the family embarks on a road trip in their close-quartered van. The constant tension between the family in the van exposes the numerous problems each family has and faces. The dad thinks his wife’s brother is a “loser” and on multiple occasions in the beginning of the film shows a clear dislike towards him. The wife is constantly stressed because she has to worry about her aging and problematic drug using dad living with them. The son is dedicating his life to the air force and vowed to not speak until he joined, which definitely adds to the mother's stress. And the daughter, Olive, the nerd of the family, is blind to the problems going on in the family, but ultimately lives an optimistic life, which holds the family together. The writer of the m...