Miss Firecracker1989
What makes this film worth watching?
"It is not about who wins the contest, but about how all beauty contests are about the need to be loved and about how silly a beauty contest can seem if somebody really loves you." - Roger Ebert
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I love the way that the film sympathizes its characters without hiding their faults. I also love how the film ends on a bittersweet note that a lot of studio films try to avoid. There is such a great mix of sadness, humor, silliness and real emotion that the actors put forth especially Holly Hunter who does such a great job, you really root for her character to get everything she wants or Alfre Woodard who plays her character with such innocence.
Starring
- Veanne Cox
- Scott Glenn
- Holly Hunter - Carnelle Scott
- Christine Lahti
- Tim Robbins - Delmount Williams
- Brent Spiner - Preacher Mann
- Mary Steenburgen - Elain Rutledge
- Ann Wedgeworth
- Trey Wilson
- Alfre Woodard
- Amy Wright
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I love the way that the film sympathizes its characters without hiding their faults. I also love how the film ends on a bittersweet note that a lot of studio films try to avoid. There is such a great mix of sadness, humor, silliness and real emotion that the actors put forth especially Holly Hunter who does such a great job, you really root for her character to get everything she wants or Alfre Woodard who plays her character with such innocence.
An excellent southern indie film with an uncanny charm. The actors work very hard to seriously play very unserious characters such as the Diogenes-type drifter, and the girl who seems to be frightfully embarassed at the pageant. When a fight breaks out she continues to play the piano while she sobs. The whole pageant is thoroughly entertaining weirdness. The southern environment and lush Louisiana accents create a pseudo-world in which the strange scripted interactions might seem plausible, this being a sort of foggy daydream of gulf culture.