A dysfunctional family's road trip to a child beauty pageant becomes a darkly comic, heartwarming, and whimsical journey.
Dry wit. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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