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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.
- (2.4K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Thomas Schlamme
- 1990-01-19
Sep 10, 2012 · An email you’ll actually love. This adaptation of Beth Henley's play The Miss Firecracker Contest abounds with idiosyncratic detail and such familiar Henley ingredients as family madness; but.
A movie adaptation of Beth Henley's play about a beauty contest in a small Mississippi town. Holly Hunter stars as Carnelle, who dreams of winning the crown and the love of her cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen).
Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen) had won years before ...
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- Thomas Schlamme
- PG
- Holly Hunter
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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.
