Miss All-American Beauty (1982)

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(96 ratings)

This TV-movie features a Texas beauty-queen contestant (Diane Lane) who is trying to earn money for college. A pianist, she learns a bit of self-respect during the competition. ~ John Bush, Rovi

Directed By: Gus Trikonis
Genres: Drama, Television

In Theaters: Dec 27, 1982 Wide

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Jim H

A Texas beauty queen rises to prominence but finds her integrity tested by her handlers. A stolid, facile, infantile, superficial film that fails to say anything that wouldn't be better covered by an after-school special or a "The More You Know" commercial. It's… More
A Texas beauty queen rises to prominence but finds her integrity tested by her handlers. A stolid, facile, infantile, superficial film that fails to say anything that wouldn't be better covered by an after-school special or a "The More You Know" commercial. It's easy to summarize the moral of this story: respect yourself because beauty is on the inside, not the outside. That's boring enough, but the film undercuts its whole moral because once the main character learns her "lesson," she still ultimately succeeds based solely on her external beauty. Diane Lane is good a being beautiful, but she's not allowed to be an actress in this film, and Cloris Leachman is a grandmotherly maternal figure but nothing else. Overall, you should avoid the hell out of this film unless you want to set the feminist movement back a generation or two, in which case you're an asshole who deserves shitty movies.
jay n

Average TV movie with an very young and beautiful Diane Lane. She and Cloris Leachman are good as always but the picture is nothing special.

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Cast

Norman Bennett
as George Butterfield
Rodger Boyce
as US Car Rental Ckerk
David Dukes
as Avery McPherson
Stephanie Dunnam
as Felicity
Alice Hirson
as Marjorie Butterfield
Brian Kerwin
as Michael Carrington
Diane Lane
as Sally Butterfield
Cloris Leachman
as Agatha Blaine
Jayne Meadows
as Gertrude Hunnicutt
Bobby Fite
as Petey Butterfield
Jim Mills
Jane Roberts
Debra Lynn Rogers
Michele Rusheene
Peggy Woody
Helen Martin Brockie

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Miss All-American Beauty (1982)

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