A modern-day dysfunctional family struggles through life’s toughest challenges by coming together to celebrate the family. Each individual has his own “American Dream” and fails to accomplish it. As individuals, they failed, but they come together to succeed in a new American dream where the family comes together to help each other and become a functional family.
The individualistic dreams are more shallows dreams based around one big shallow dream of winning a beauty competition. This family is the only one that realizes the beauty competition has to do with inner beauty like family love and bonds, and the film demeans the physical and superficial American Dream.
The grandfather’s death symbolizes the family’s overcoming of death, and it brings them together. The director uses humor around the grandfather’s death to present the idea of hope and moving on with life.
There is also comedy in other parts such as the van they drive. The van represents all of the problems within the family. With each issue within the family, there is an issue with the van such as the horn going out or the car not starting. The van is a practice for the family to combine and solve a problem together. The innocence of the young girl is the driving force for the rest of the family to protect her from the real world and the failures it has brought to them.
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