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.

Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him deca...

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gl...

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still s...

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a ...

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...

Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, where three teenagers ed...

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors...

Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ...

A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school ...

A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project.

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of rea...

The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Rob...

The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory...

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the...

Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenge...

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddi...