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Miss Firecracker

Release Date:April 28, 1989

Running Time:102 min

Genres:Comedy

Director

Cast

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

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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