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Little Miss Sunshine(2006)
Released
2006 · FILM

Little Miss Sunshine

Stressed mother Sheryl must rally her eccentric, multi‑generational household and survive a chaotic cross‑country road trip to get her daughter into the Little Miss Sunshine pageant before time runs out.

“A family on the verge of a breakdown.”

Directed by
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Written by
Michael Arndt
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
101 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

A family full of quirky, colorful characters packs into an old van and embarks on a road trip to California so that young Olive can compete in a beauty pageant.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 290+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Pamela MartinShot by Tim SuhrstedtScored by Mychael DannaDesigned by Kalina IvanovSound by Rick AshCostumes by Nancy SteinerStunts by Kenny AndersonVFX by Adam Avitabile

Box Office

2006 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 13× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$100.5M

Budget$8.0M
Worldwide gross$100.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $59.9M — 60% of worldwide · International: $40.6M (40%)

Opening weekend: $128K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $128K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

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Also known as

  • Pequeña Miss Sunshinees
  • (English)Little Miss Sunshine
  • (Bulgarian)Мис Слънчице
Release dates around the world2 countries · show
  • United StatesJan 20, 2006
  • SwitzerlandAug 12, 2006

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