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.

• Guadalupe Productions
• Corsair Pictures
• Holly Hunter
• Alfre Woodard
• Mary Steenburgen
• Tim Robbins
• Scott Glenn
• Trey Wilson
• Ann Wedgeworth
• Amy Wright