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Films about beauty pageants, competitions that have traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions.
Indiewire called the performances "uniformly top-notch," and said "Subsequent beauty-pageant movies like Drop Dead Gorgeous and Little Miss Sunshine have tended to feel like pale imitations next to it." [12] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 17 critics, with an average rating of 7.80/10. [13]
Documentary films about beauty pageants, competitions that have traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions.
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American satirical mockumentary black comedy film directed by Michael Patrick Jann and written by Lona Williams.It stars Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards, along with Brittany Murphy, Allison Janney and Amy Adams in her film debut.
So to a degree, a child beauty pageant is the epitome of the ultimate stupid meaningless competition people put themselves through." [5] Co-director Jonathan Dayton also commented on the importance of the pageant to the film: "As far as the pageant goes, it was very important to us that the film not be about pageants. It's about being out of ...
Sundance Film Festival is a hot bed for terrific indie movies. Watch 10 all-timers that launched there, including "Get Out" and "Napoleon Dynamite." ... (Abigail Breslin) into a beauty pageant ...
Beautiful is a 2000 American comedy drama film directed by Sally Field (in her feature film directorial debut), starring Minnie Driver and Hallie Eisenberg.The plot deals with the sacrifices that contestants in the Miss America pageant typically must make. [2]
The documentary follows five-year-old beauty contestant Swan Brooner and her mother, Robin Browne throughout the year of 1999 as Brooner moves from a pageant in Cape Coral, Florida to the higher profile southern pageants. [3] The film further explore the sexualization element prominent despite pageant contestants' young age. [4] [5]