PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The cast and filmmakers behind Little Miss Sunshine attended a screening at the Sundance Film Festival Wedneday. The screening was held in the Eccles theater, the same theater where is screened in 2006.
That 2006 screening launched a bidding war, won by Fox Searchlight, now Searchlight Pictures. Twenty years after its first standing ovation, it earned another one amongst an audience mixed with people who were there in 2006 and those seeing it for the first time.
Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano and Abigail Breslin joined directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, screenwriter Michael Arndt and producers on stage after the film. Breslin, 29, remembered the standing ovation worried her as a 9-year-old.
"We were in this theater and I remember everybody stood up in the end, started clapping and to my mom, I was like, 'We gotta evacuate, I don't know what's happening. Are we all going to die?'" Breslin said, adding that her mom assured her, "No, it's a really good thing."
Breslin plays Olive Hoover, a 7-year-old competing in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Her family must drive her to the finals in Long Beach, Calif., from Albuquerque, N.M.
