Little Miss Sunshine Stereotypes

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Little Miss Sunshine is a film about an 8 year old girl named Olive Hoover who is obsessed with being in pageants and is looking to become the next miss America, Olive gets the opportunity to participate in a national competition after the girl who was supposed to compete in her place has to drop out of the competition. Throughout the movie, Olive’s family help her to reach her goal no matter what, despite facing numerous obstacles throughout the course of the film.
As the film opens, we see Olive standing in front of a television set watching the Miss America pageant. The actress they chose to portray Olive is Abigail Breslin. Olive could be described as short in height, pale skinned with glasses, crooked teeth, long brown mousey colored

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