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Miss Firecracker is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Thomas Schlamme. It stars Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, and Scott Glenn. The film, set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley and is based on her 1984 play The Miss Firecracker Contest.
Jan 19, 1990 · Miss Firecracker: Directed by Thomas Schlamme. With Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard. Carnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Thomas Schlamme
- 1990-01-19
In "Miss Firecracker," the playwright Beth Henley has taken such a contest, the Fourth of July pageant in Yazoo City, Miss., and turned it into another of those Southern Gothic romances where mansions crumble and libidos boil and young women weep bitter tears because their older sisters are prettier than they are.
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1989 · 1 hr 39 min. R. Comedy. Determined to follow in her cousin's footsteps footsteps,CArnelle enlists the help of local seamstress Popeye Jackson in preparing for the "Miss Firecracker" pageant. Starring: Holly Hunter Mary Steenburgen Tim Robbins Alfre Woodard Scott Glenn. Directed by: Thomas Schlamme.
- Thomas Schlamme
- January 1, 1989
- 98 min
Watch Miss Firecracker with a subscription on Prime Video. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which...
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- Thomas Schlamme
- PG
- Holly Hunter
— Huggo. Synopsis. Carnelle (Hunter), an oversexed hellion who was orphaned as a young child, has always played second fiddle to her beautiful, older, Southern belle cousin -- a past Miss Firecracker contest winner. But Carnelle is ready to turn the tables. After all, she wants that crown. And by golly, she is going to succeed.
An explosive comedy! Overview. 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.
