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...movie, based on screenwriter Shauna Cross' novel Derby Girl, is set in the heart of small-town Texas, where a high school senior and part-time barbeque joint waitress, Bliss Cavendar (Juno's Ellen Page) is doing her best to please her mother, Brooke (Marcia Gay Harden). Brooke, a faded beauty queen, would like her two daughters (Bliss is the older sister) to follow in her footsteps in the pageant world and then, after the triumph of coronation, go on to some greater future that while undefined, does not mimic her own fate of settling down with an amiable husband...
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