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Miss Firecracker

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Miss Firecracker
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PG,1hr 45min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Release:
1989
Director:
Thomas Schlamme
Distributor:
First Look Pictures
Starring:
Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins  ...more
Synopsis: A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge (Mary Streenburgen), a former Fourth of July "Miss Firecracker" contest winner who is taking time out from her life as a pampered wife in Atlanta to give a speech on "My Life as a Beauty" at this year's ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
A decade before the crop of turn-of-the-millennium beauty-pageant flicks -- Drop Dead Gorgeous, Beautiful, and Miss Congeniality among them -- this hothouse flower of a comedy said most of what needs to be said about the subject, and it did so with a good deal of wit and style. Featuring the indelible comic troika of Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, and Alfre Woodard, Miss Firecracker is at once a bittersweet ... Full Review
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Holly Hunter
Carnelle Scott
Mary Steenburgen
Elain Rutledge
Tim Robbins
Delmount Williams
Alfre Woodard
Popeye Jackson
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