Screenwriter Michael Arndt was inspired to write the script upon hearing California Governor and former action film star Arnold Schwarzenegger declare: “If there’s one thing in this world I despise, it’s losers.”
The result is a compassionate and sometimes humorous work that attempts to address the increasing insecurity and anxiety of layers of the US population forced to survive in a cut-throat environment.
The plot itself shows a dysfunctional family going to a children’s beauty pageant for one of the children. Traveling together in a Volkswagen mini-bus each of them discover certain aspects of their lives that they could not see beforehand and how to relate to one another.
