"Little Miss Sunshine" - The new American family; fractured, broken, strange, but in the end, coming together to get something done. Also beautifully explores that strangest of American rituals, the child beauty pageant. \\ "American Beauty" - Perfectly explores the monotony of American suburbs and teenagers wasting away in them, the crises that people have in America as they get older as to their "wasted lives," and the dischord in families that look perfectly normal, as well as the desire for these families to save face in front of their neighbors. \\ "Wedding Crashers" - Gets American wedding culture, the wedding industry, anxiety to get married, the "meeting the family", and politics, mixes it together in a blur of champagne bubbles and manages to laugh at itself." - Adriano