Movies

June, 1989

What can you reasonably hope for in life? "Not too damn much," drawls Scott Glenn, playing a carnival roustabout, pretty much summing up the philosophy and psychology of Miss Firecracker (Corsair). Director Thomas Schlamme's cheeky film version of the off-Broadway hit play The Miss Firecracker Contest, by Beth (Crimes of the Heart) Henley, is a human comedy with heart, high spirits and another flashy performance by Holly Hunter, a 1988 Oscar nominee for Broadcast News. In the role she...