Richard’s foul-mouthed, heroin-snorting father who was kicked out of his retirement home but serves as Olive’s fiercely devoted beauty pageant coach.

The title and release year of the movie. Directed by the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006 and sparked one of the biggest bidding wars in festival history before being acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

: Sheryl’s brother, a brilliant scholar recovering from a suicide attempt.

The sweet, naive, seven-year-old centerpiece of the family whose dream of competing in a beauty pageant initiates the plot.

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