Miss Firecracker
Summary:
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 winne... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Holly Hunter - (Carnelle Scott)
Mary Steenburgen - (Elain Rutledge)
Tim Robbins - (Delmount Williams)
Alfre Woodard - (Popeye Jackson)
Scott Glenn - (Mac Sam)
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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, $... Continue >>
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