Where They Went

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

A frayed Albuquerque family squeezes into a temperamental yellow VW bus to get seven-year-old Olive to a beauty pageant in Redondo Beach, California.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Hoover house
    Albuquerque, New Mexico
    ≈ 00:01:00
    Stated on screen

    Olive learns she has a place in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, and the whole family must come along.

  2. 2Hospital
    Roadside hospital on the drive west (fictional)
    ≈ 00:50:00
    InferredFictional
  3. 3Pageant hotel
    Redondo Beach, California
    ≈ 01:10:00
    Stated on screen

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
1,090 km
Places
3
Countries
1
Stops
3
  • Car: 1,090 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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