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You can see Steve Carell every week in NBC’s smash hit “The Office,” but this summer he’s taking the ride of his life in Fox Searchlight’s Little Miss Sunshine. Carell hits the highway in a yellow VW van for one of the funniest and off the wall road trips with his dysfunctional extended family, the Hoovers. Frank (Carell) is a gay Proust scholar who attempts suicide because the man he fell for is in love with someone else; his brother-in-law, Richard (Greg Kinnear), is an oblivious washed up motivational speaker who is waiting for his big break; his nephew, Dwayne (Paul Dano), hasn’t spoken in nine months and hates everyone; the grandpa (Alan Arkin) is a porn loving, heroine addict; his niece, Olive (Abigail Breslin), is a wannabe beauty queen; and his sister, Sheryl (Toni Collette), holds the family together or at least tries to.

Carell superbly plays the melancholic character, but he initially didn’t think he was right for the role. “On the page I was really intrigued by the character and it just was something I wanted to play. I didn’t really know whether I could or not or whether I’d be right for it necessarily, but I felt like I understood the depths of clinical depression that this guy had sort of fallen in too,” he explained to ComingSoon.net

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