The six members of the Hoover family have weird personalities. Everyone has their own problems, but at the same time, everyone is unwilling to spend time listening to other people's problems. Therefore, the family dining table often becomes a battlefield for quarrels. Until one day, the 7-year-old daughter Oliver screamed with excitement when she heard the news of the "Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant on the radio during the quarrel, and finally calmed down the ongoing fierce quarrel.
With Olive's efforts, the Hoover family decided to accompany her on a collective dream-seeking journey, driving a long distance from Albuquerque to California to participate in this "Miss Sunshine" beauty contest. Along the way, in addition to facing the technical problems of the old Volkswagen station wagon at home, the Hoover family also had to undergo a spiritual test.
On this road of seeking dreams for the little daughter, everyone's dreams are experiencing constant collisions and shattering. My father, who had always believed in his own rules of success, became a loser who was despised by him. His elder brother, who had sworn dumbly for his dream of flying for 9 months, suffered the destruction of his dream. Oliver jumped into the competition and the striptease that grandpa rehearsed for her attracted. There was boos in the audience, and the uncle who had failed in his love career ran into an exuberant old lover and rival, and his grandfather who died of drug overdose and his big jokes with the world.
The various experiences of a family of “losers” on the road allow us to redefine success and failure in mainstream values: life has to go on, and everything is not only a result of winning or losing.
