Nenhuma família é verdadeiramente normal, mas a família Hoover extrapola. O pai desenvolveu um método de auto-ajuda que é um fracasso, o filho mais velho fez voto de silêncio, o cunhado é um professor suicida e o avô foi expulso de uma casa de repouso por usar heroína. Nada funciona para o clã, até que a filha caçula, a desajeitada Olive (Abigail Breslin), é convidada para participar de um concurso de beleza para meninas pré-adolescentes. Durante três dias eles deixam todas as suas diferenças de lado e se unem para atravessar o país numa kombi amarela enferrujada.
Sátira sobre os bastidores de um concurso de Miss Universo na Califórnia.
Willowdean Dickson (Danielle Macdonald), é uma jovem acima do peso e bastante confiante com o próprio corpo, apesar de não ter o respeito de sua mãe, uma ex-miss (Jennifer Aniston). Quando se apaixona pelo atleta Bo (Luke Benward) e começa a ter inseguranças. Will decide entrar num concurso de beleza como forma de protesto.
Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives.
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.
Esta é a história de Cernelle (Holly Hunter), uma mulher que não está feliz com sua vida. Para melhorar seu ânimo, ela se inscreve num concurso de beleza tentando imitar sua prima Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Para a maioria das pessoas, Cernelle não tem nenhuma chance de ganhar o concurso. Mesmo seus parentes e amigos sabem que ela está fora do páreo. Seu primo Delmont (Tim Robbins) acredita que a garota está prestes a passar por um enorme desapontamento. Mas Cernelle sabe que ganhar o concurso de beleza é a porta aberta para sua libertação. Só assim ela poderá deixar sua cidadezinha localizada no Mississipi.
No meio de uma fuga audaciosa, dois bandidos fogem para uma cidadezinha chamada Happy, no meio do Texas. Às vésperas de um concurso de jovens talentos, os dois são vistos como a última esperança da cidade para ajudar as meninas locais. Desprezando inicialmente a idéia, os dois bandidos resolvem ajudar ao perceber que o banco local faz uma grande movimentação de dinheiro.
Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss Norway contest, and as a result both girls get more and more preoccupied with their looks. When Lotte is allowed to participate in the contest, it soon becomes clear that being too vain can be a frightening experience.
THE BIKINI OPEN is a special-event, retro series featuring the best swimsuit, fitness, bikini, and modeling competitions from the early 90s.
Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.
Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.
A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations. Hidden camera footage of negotiations with the owners of the largest national beauty contests and an attempt to answer the question of why these people are not yet in prison. Famous people on the jury are not a guarantee of fair judging. Irrefutable evidence of the corruption of the so-called “stars” who elect the next Miss and Mrs. The collection and subsequent theft of funds for charity is a side business of the owners of fraudulent shows. What actually awaits the titled Misses after purchasing the prize? And what do children's beauty pageants turn out to be like for young participants?
A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her.
The American Royalty docuseries showcases an in-depth perspective of the Miss America Pageant. Experience the hundred year history, influence, controversy, and evolution of this iconic institution.
Weighing close to 100 kg, Nhon is a contented, fat woman, with a good heart. She happily lives as a hair dresser at her own salon with her boyfriend. She decides to go to Bangkok to take part in the famous Jumbo Queen contest for large women. Her father Banchar who has a bad attitude towards obese people, sees her on TV and tries to stop her from being in the contest. It doesn't work though, as Nhon seems to be getting more and more popular. Nhon has to prove herself to her father that the merit is in the heart not in the size of her body.
Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event
A year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.