Miss Firecracker - Trailer

Academy Award Nominee Holly Hunter is sensational as Carnelle Scott, a catfish-factory worker from 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 (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 seamstress named Popeye (Alfre Woodard) who claims, "He makes my heart hot." Author Beth Henley's antic humor carries the day for her characters; lively loons who laugh to keep from toppling into the abyss.

MPAA Rating: PG

Cast: Holly Hunter, Tim Robbins, Scott Glenn, Mary Steenburgen, Alfre Woodard