Miss Firecracker

5.6

102m

1989

PG

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.

Starring

Holly Hunter, Alfre Woodard, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Scott Glenn, Trey Wilson, Ann Wedgeworth, Amy Wright, Veanne Cox, Christine Lahti

Directed By

Thomas Schlamme