Miss Firecracker
PG
6.1
1989
1 hr 42 min
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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- Cast:
- Holly Hunter , Alfre Woodard , Mary Steenburgen , Tim Robbins , Scott Glenn , Trey Wilson , Ann Wedgeworth
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Very disappointed :(
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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
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It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
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