Director                       Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring                       Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin
Genre                          Comedy   
Film running length    102mins
Country                       US

Husband and wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris gearshift seamlessly from directing music videos to the vast canvas of big screen, finding intense moments of human drama during the epic journey.

Seven-year-old wannabe beauty queen Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) is delighted to be selected as a finalist in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant in California. Her proud parents, Richard (Greg Kinnear) and Sheryl (Toni Collette), cram their entire family - angry son Dwayne (Paul Dano), porn-loving father (Alan Arkin) and suicidal, gay brother Frank (Steve Carell) - into a VW camper van for a cross country road trip to hell and back.

 
Director                             Michel Gondry
Starring                             Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat
Genre                                Comedy
Film running length          106mins    
Country                             France

Stephane Miroux has a mundane job at a Parisian calendar publisher, and often retreats into his imagination where he creates the alter ego of a presenter on a fantasy television show. As reality and fiction blur, Stephane finds it increasingly difficult to maintain control of his mundane life and to conduct a romance with his pretty neighbour Stephanie.