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29/07/2005

BBC Two - Miss Firecracker

A young woman dreams of winning the local Miss Firecracker beauty contest.

Charmingly eccentric film about a young woman's pursuit of a dream: to win the local Miss Firecracker beauty contest and escape small-town life. With Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins.

Charmingly eccentric film about the pursuit of a dream. A young woman is determined to win the local Miss Firecracker beauty contest as a way out of small-town Southern life. Carnelle Scott made an idol out of older cousin Elain, a past Miss Firecracker and speaker at the Fourth of July pageant, and she enlists the help of a motley crew of characters in her ferocious attempts to emulate that feat.

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