
Little Miss Sunshine(2006)
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.


“GO! GO! GO! It's Free-Wheeling Fun!”
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.

Elvis Presley
Toby Kwimper

Arthur O'Connell
Pop Kwimper

Anne Helm
Holly Jones

Joanna Moore
Alisha Claypoole

Jack Kruschen
Carmine

Simon Oakland
Nick

Roland Winters
Judge

Alan Hewitt
H. Arthur King

Howard McNear
George

Frank De Kova
Jack (as Frank de Kova)
Follow That Dream is a comedy film released in 1962 exploring themes of highway, homestead. Directed by Gordon Douglas, it stars Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm. When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
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