Recovering this evening from a week-long miserable cold (the price to be paid for my winter wonderland Christmas gift), I caught the end of Little Miss Sunshine on cable. I loved this film when I first saw it on DVD a few years back—it reminded me why I miss not being able to attend the Sundance Film Festival like we used to when we lived in Salt Lake. A funny, touching fable about a family supporting one another in their crazy aspirations, even when it hurts, and hobbling to keep things together.
I'm weepy because of the headcold; but Olive's "perp walk" down the corridor to her big dance routine, with her mother calling out the family's support for her, and then the haunting Devotchka song that accompanies their final push-start of the van before the closing credits would probably have been enough to make me cry even without being sick.
This is what "forever families" look like.
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