Watch Miss Firecracker (1989) Free Online

Release Date: 1989

Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Veanne Cox, Christine Lahti, Ann Wedgeworth, Amy Wright, Alfre Woodard, Trey Wilson, Brent Spiner, Scott Glenn, Tim Robbins, Holly Hunter

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Americana, Comedy-drama, Indie, Domestic Comedy

Miss Firecracker is a 1989 comedy film directed by Thomas Schlamme. It stars Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, and Scott Glenn. The film, set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley and is based on her 1984 play, The Miss Firecracker Contest. Carnelle (Holly Hunter) enters the Miss Firecracker beauty pageant in her hometown of Yazoo, Mississippi, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's (Mary Steenburgen) win some years previous. Carnelle was taken in as a waif by her genteel cousins after the death of her mother and... MORE

Miss Firecracker is a 1989 comedy film directed by Thomas Schlamme. It stars Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, and Scott Glenn. The film, set in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley and is based on her 1984 play, The Miss Firecracker Contest. Carnelle (Holly Hunter) enters the Miss Firecracker beauty pageant in her hometown of Yazoo, Mississippi, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's (Mary Steenburgen) win some years previous. Carnelle was taken in as a waif by her genteel cousins after the death of her mother and grows up promiscuous, brash, unfeminine and lacking in grace. Few expect she can win, her closest friends and relatives think she is heading for a big disappointment, but Carnelle is ever hopeful. When her other cousin, the eccentric sociopath Delmont Tim Robbins decides to sell the house they both live in to make money, Carnelle becomes even more determined to win, viewing it as a way to escape her small town existence . Elain returns to the town to give a speech at the pageant after a breakup with her husband. Carnelle insists Elain let her wear the red dress in which she won the contest, thinking LESS