Miss Firecracker
Apr 28 1989
•2h 42m
•Comedy
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.
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Holly Hunter
Carnelle Scott
Alfre Woodard
Popeye Jackson
Mary Steenburgen
Elaine Rutledge
Tim Robbins
Delmount Williams
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