"Little Miss Sunshine"
Uncle: Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell)
'Uncle Fester' factor: Uncle Frank isn't so much embarrassing as he is pitiful. When the Proust scholar's failed suicide lands him back at his sister's (Toni Collette) house, he bunks with his teenage nephew, who resents being put on suicide watch. OK, it is pretty embarrassing when Uncle Frank runs into his former lover at a gas station while trying to buy porn magazines for his father.
Uncle duds: Uncle Frank goes "campus casual" in a white or light-pink button-down shirt, sand-colored khakis, brown lace-up Wallabees and a full beard with dark, depressive circles under the eyes.
Say uncle: "If you sleep until you're 18 ... Think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school -- those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that."
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