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iView Author: Krishna Suresh
(Nepal, Singapore)
eMail: icsknights [at] gmail [dot]com

Title: Little Miss Sunshine is lovely

When was the last time I punched air with a fist, when a kid does a semi strip dance? Yes, allow yourself to see me laughing while writing this review. I was quite surprised how this movie actually “surprised” me in the end. Little Miss Sunshine, from a Fox Searchlight studios, is a very fresh take on family drama by director duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. Of course it is also rare to see a very fresh Steve Carell blending soft comedy with subtle acting prowess.

So, here we have a family united to go ahead and take their little princess, Olivia (Abigail Breslin), to a kid’s beauty pageant called the Little Miss Sunshine. But, you do know how the …

Friday April 11th 2008. Fame Adlabs Multiplex, Andheri, Mumbai - The 11.15 p.m. show.

Dan In Real Life is essentially a romantic comedy (romcom), albeit of the much-abused feel-good variety, a genre who’s abuser & the abused is ironically the very same entity – Hollywood.

Television’s Steve Carell & French thespian Juliette Binoche star in this film about a widowed-father-of-three-daughters, & a good-parenting columnist, finding love in a least likely source - his younger brother’s girlfriend Marie (Binoche). The first indicator of this love, you’ll notice, happens to be an unlikely one too.

Film opens with Steve Carell’s Dan shaking his morning l’ennui off the bed, & starting the day with sorting clothes for/from wash. One particular curious piece of clothing, belonging to one of his daughters, seems to disturb Dan no end, considering his being a responsible single parent &, …