Little Miss Sunshine

The undoubted star - playing the character whom all the others revolve around and eventually look to for stability in their family - is Breslin, who began her career as Mel Gibson's daughter in M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs." She perfectly plays Olive, who is not the conventional entrant in a beauty pageant, but who has the dream and desire to compete regardless.
Comparisons to Dakota Fanning are easy to make, but Breslin shows a much broader and wide range of talent than Fanning has ever shown. Her best trait, which makes the movie so endearing to the viewer, is the ability to act as a character who is markedly different than everyone around her, but yet feels no shame or embarrassment from this. Her performance is stunning to watch and goes down as one of the best screen performances of 2006.
-The Observer

"Abigail Breslin ("Sunshine"), who had appeared in several Disney movies, including "The Princess Diaries," and could prove to be the next Dakota Fanning"
- Anne Thompson : Metro News 
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"The entire cast, including Abigail Breslin in the title role and Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as her squabbling parents, came onstage to the sound of unrelenting applause Friday."
- Ruthe Stein : SFGate Articles 
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"Abigail Breslin, who plays the little girl, turns in the kind of superb performance that gets you cast in the next Spielberg movie (if he figures Dakota Fanning is too old)."
- Keith Simanton : Sundance Blog 
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"Abigail Breslin, just perfect as Olive, has a moment of silent understanding and remorse so powerful that it could melt a hundred Grinch hearts and confirms just how big this film’s is – and it’s just getting warmed up."
- Erik Childress : E Film Critic 
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"Abigail Breslin is a vital blend of klutziness and grace as the ambitious grade-schooler."
- Duane Byrge : Hollywood Reporter 
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"The real find in the film, however, comes in the smallest package. Ms. Breslin has stolen moments in films like "Raising Helen," "Keane," and "Signs," but here she runs away with the whole thing. The success of the film depends on the slight actress's ability to convince the audience of both her emotions and the effect they have on the adults around her. She wholly succeeds at both. Olive has a sweet demeanor, awkward dressing habits, and what appear to be the free plastic lenses that healthcare companies have inflicted on generations of badly sighted children. If Ms. Breslin had played the part with even a bit of saccharine sentimentality, many trivial set pieces would have been laid bare."
- nysun

"She knew how to play the part, she knew what she wanted to do, she needed very little direction, if any. She was like one of the gang, there were no concessions made to her age or her relative or her formal inexperience; but it was like working with an old pro. A very sweet, and unassuming child at the same time."

"That's interesting - it doesn’t come very often, people not getting along on set. Well, I've got to say, in all honesty, it hasn’t happened that often in my career - maybe four or five times over the past forty years - where they have been that have been impossible to work with. Well, that’s like life; everybody isn’t gonna be Abigail Breslin." - alan arkin

"Even though Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette are the "stars" of movie, it really belongs to Abigail Breslin"

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