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EW's 10 of Our Favorite Beauty Pageant Movies
Entertainment Weekly's list of the top 10 beauty pageant movies. With countless beauty pageants made over the years, it can be helpful to know what the EW critics think to help guide you to a handful of movies you can be sure will be good. The entertainment magazine is known for such franchises that help entertainment junkies separate the good from the bad, in this case, to narrow done all the choices to a list of 10 great beauty queen movies.
What are EW's 10 favorite movies about pageants? Take a look at this list and you'll find out for yourself. Find the full article and photo gallery on EW's web site.- While visiting China, an American high-school student (Mika Boorem) befriends a teenager (Yi Ding) who has a facial deformity.
- 2Before adulthood takes hold, four teenage girls spirit away to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for a final vacation together. And all of them have their issues: Carson (Phoebe Cates) is marrying a boy who might ...more
- Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen) had won years before. Despite ...more
- Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet ...more
- A year after running over a fisherman and dumping his body in the water, four friends reconvene when Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) receives a frightening letter telling her that their crime was seen. ...more
- When bank robbers Harry (Jeremy Northam) and Wayne (Steve Zahn) escape from prison and stumble into the tiny Texas Panhandle town of Happy, they're mistaken for the gay couple who were scheduled to ...more
- An annual beauty pageant in small-town Minnesota turns ridiculously competitive and ultimately chaotic in this biting comedy. Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst), the daughter of hard-drinking mom Annette ...more
- When a terrorist threatens to bomb the Miss United States pageant, the FBI rushes to find a female agent to go under cover as a contestant. Unfortunately, Gracie is the only female FBI agent who can ...more
- Mona Hibbard steadily advances as an American beauty queen in spite of her less than congenial temperament. Her best friend from childhood, Ruby, has the patience of a saint, which is why she's the ...more
- The Hoover family -- a man (Greg Kinnear), his wife (Toni Collette), an uncle (Steve Carell), a brother (Paul Dano) and a grandfather (Alan Arkin) -- puts the fun back in dysfunctional by piling into ...more
