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Academy Award Nominee Holly Hunter, the hell-cat from Broadcast News, is sensational as Carnelle Scott, a catfish factory worker from Yazoo City, Mississippi, whose rep as the town slut can't stop her dream to win the local Miss Firecracker Beauty Pageant. Orphaned at eight, she was raised with her two spoiled first cousins. The well-mannered Elaine--a beguilingly bitchy Mary Steenburgen--is a former Miss Firecracker who would rather not see her scraggly cousin succeed. Cousin Delmount, played with ticking humor by Academy Award Winner Tim Robbins, has just been sprung from an asylum, and he's eager to sell the decrepit family mansion Carnelle still calls home. Delmount treats the local belles like dogs, but succumbs to a salt-of-the-earth black seamstress named Popeye (the glorious Academy Award Nominee Alfre Woodard) who claims, "He makes my heart hot." Author Beth Henly's antic humor carries the day for her characters; lively loons who laugh to keep from toppling into the abyss. Miss Firecracker is a spirited lark that is shot through with enchantment.
"Miss Firecracker is a spirited lark..." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
This hilarious comedy stars Holly Hunter as Carnelle, a sexually-loose hellraiser who was orphaned as a child and has grown up in the shadow of her beautiful cousin, a proper southern belle and past Miss Firecracker. Carnelle, far from the typical contestant, sets her sights on the current crown and devises a scheme to enter and win the contest. Hunter is fabulous as the fiery Carnelle, giving justice to the film's title.
Plot Summary
Comedy about Carnelle, a sexually-loose hellraiser, who enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the very old-fashioned town where she was raised, Yazoo City, Mississippi. Carnelle's not the usual kind of contestant -- but her cousin is a famous winner -- and Carnelle's determined to equal her, no matter what the obstacles.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Previews | | Scene Selection | | Slideshow Presentation |
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Release Information
| | Studio: First Look Pictures |
| Release Date: 6/21/2005 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1988 | | Catalog ID: 10709 | | UPC: 00687797107091 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...MISS FIRECRACKER is a spirited lark...It's shot through with enchantment....The movie boasts its own scratching vitality and a cast that makes rousing good company..." 05/18/1989 p.40Washington Post 6 of 10
Undeniably, the material romanticizes Southern life as harmlessly eccentric. This is the nutty, not - Hal Hinson
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
What finally makes Miss Firecracker special is that it is not about who wins the contest, but - Roger Ebert
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