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Little Miss
2de
Sunshine
worksheet
I- The characters:
Who is who ? Complete with the following names:
Richard – Dwayne – Olive – Frank – Grandpa – Sheryl
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How are they related to each other ?
Complete the family tree:
Richard’s mother
Olive
Match the descriptions to the characters
Olive
Sheryl
the Hoovers' "pro-honesty", constantly tormented by her family's eccentric
secrets, especially those of her brother
Grandpa
a gay suicidal Proust scholar fresh out of the hospital after being let down by
his gay lover
Dwayne
Richard
an angry, Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence until he gets
into the Air Force Academy
Frank
speaks his thoughts loudly and frankly, pleasure-seeker, recently kicked out of
his retirement home for having taken heroin
a hopelessly optimistic motivational speaker, who is desperately attempting to
sell his 9-step program for success -- without much success.
the four-eyed, slightly plump, seven year-old would-be beauty queen
II- The story:
Rewrite the plot summary by putting the following sentences in the right order:
- to fulfill1 the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive,
- Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks,
- The Hoover family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach,
California,
- and a broken-down VW bus,
- an ordinary little girl with big dreams.
- On their travels through this bizarre landscape,
- no matter what the challenge.
- leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself.
- the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life,
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III- Make the movie review:
Write a paragraph presenting the movie (directors, actors, date of release, plot, your opinion…)
(Use the PASSIVE VOICE !!)
Rappel: passif = BE (au temps désiré) + participe passé
Release (sortie) date (USA) : July 26th, 2006; directors: Valerie FARIS and Jonathan
DAYTON; stars: Greg KINNEAR (as Richard), Toni COLETTE (as Sheryl), Steve CARELL (as
Uncle Frank), Alan ARKIN (as Grandpa), Paul DANO (as Dwayne), Abigail BRESLIN (as Olive)
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