Little Miss Sunshine: A peculiar family takes a challenge-filled road trip to enter their young girl in a beauty pageant.

If you loved Little Miss Sunshine you may also enjoy:

Sideways: Two guys road-trip and discover that friendship and Pinot Noir are the best elixirs for cold feet.

Garden State: A journey to his hometown for his mother’s funeral forces Andrew to forge an unexpected new friendship.

Elizabethtown: Drew travels home to bury his father and meets a girl who breathes new life into his world.

About a Boy: Toni Collette plays a struggling mother of a 12-year old boy who befriends a commitment phobic bachelor.

Lars and the Real Girl: Lars is a socially dysfunctional man. In a desperate attempt to find love he falls for his silicone sex doll.

These films are thought provoking character studies. They immerse characters in loneliness and show their yearning for successful relationships.