Miss Firecracker (1989)

5.6

Comedy

102 min min

1989

Holly Hunter Alfre Woodard Mary Steenburgen Tim Robbins Scott Glenn

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.