Headstrong Mona Hubbard is fiercely driven to capture the coveted Miss American Miss beauty award, but an unusual circumstance teams her with a soccer-playing, deep-dimpled little girl named Vanessa.
Directed by Sally Field
woman director
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3.2 / 5
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Cast
Minnie Driver
Mona
Joey Lauren Adams
Ruby
Hallie Eisenberg
Vanessa
Kathleen Turner
Verna Chickle
Leslie Stefanson
Joyce Parkins
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Lorna Larkin (Miss Texas)
Kathleen Robertson
Wanda Love (Miss Tennessee)
Michael McKean
Lance DeSalvo
Gary Collins
Miss American Miss Host
Linda Hart
Nedra Hibbard
Brent Briscoe
Lurdy
Colleen Rennison
Mona at 12
Crew
Sally Field
Director
John Frizzell
Original Music Composer
Debra Neil-Fisher
Editor
Robert D. Yeoman
Director of Photography
Wendy Japhet
Executive Producer
Kurt Bryant
Stunt Coordinator
Popular Reviews
11 reviews
Jebo
4.0★ · 05/09/26
It had the bones to be a good cheesy feel good movie, but there were some things thrown in there that were handled oddly like the main character potentially being molested as a child and an elderly woman committing suicide in “lighthearted funny way” also these things were very unnecessary
It had the bones to be a good cheesy feel good movie, but there were some things thrown in there that were handled oddly like the main character potentially being molested as a child and an elderly woman committing suicide in “lighthearted funny way” also these things were very unnecessary
valPRO
5.0★ · 02/25/26
the woke part of me hates that the little girl had to parent her own mother and the other part of me cried at the end
the woke part of me hates that the little girl had to parent her own mother and the other part of me cried at the end
Ceci
6.0★ · 05/02/25
Cute. It got some tears out of me.
Cute. It got some tears out of me.
Luisa
NO ONE GETS THIS MOVIE LIKE I DO.
NO ONE GETS THIS MOVIE LIKE I DO.
Kelsea Denney
4.2★ · 01/22/22
“You belong in the family box.”
🥲 one of those movies I watched on cable when I was like 7 and has been a fever dream ever since.
“You belong in the family box.”
🥲 one of those movies I watched on cable when I was like 7 and has been a fever dream ever since.
