Little Miss Sunshine
I haven't seen very many road movies, I just didn't encounter them very often in the past. That is one reason I am very excited to take this course. The road movie I have seen recently that I really enjoyed was Little Miss Sunshine. I really like movies that aren't so packed with plot points that you can't appreciate the acting or editing. Little Miss Sunshine gives you time to digest and appreciate the events as they happen. The issue of feminism is addressed most obviously in the daughter's desire to participate in a beauty pageant where stereotypical femininity is being thrust on six and seven year old girls.
The entire family doesn't want to expose the daughter to the judgement associated with pageants because she doesn't fit perfectly in that world. In the end it works out because she walks away happy with her individuality. The rest of the family begin to solve their problems on the road. It gives them space and time to identify them and begin to solve them. I don't think that they were fixed by the road, but changed for the better.