Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close to her Carnelle remains determined. She enlists the help of a seamstress to outfit her for the competition, while rebuffing the advances of predatory men, as she aims to bring home the crown.

• DirectorThomas Schlamme
• Release28 April 1989
• GenreComedy
• Duration1h 42m
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  5.6
  26 reviews
• Productions

  Guadalupe Productions, Corsair Pictures, Firecracker Company