DUMPLIN’ (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$), Jennifer Aniston (Cake), Luke Benward (Life of the Party), Odeya Rush (Lady Bird), Dove Cameron (Barely Lethal), Bex Taylor-Klaus (Hell Fest), Harold Perrineau (Zero Dark Thirty), Maddie Baillio (film debut), Sam Pancake (Barry Munday), Dan Finnerty (The Hangover), Ann Mahoney (Logan Lucky), Ginger Minj (film debut), Kathy Najimy (Sister Act), Georgie Flores (film debut), Kaye Singleton (Saving Sudan), Coley Campany (Shotgun Stories), Tian Richards (A Bad Moms Christmas), Ryan Dinning (film debut), Grace Junot (Ghost Town: The Movie), Hilliary Begley (film debut), Alon McKlveen (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Anne Fletcher (The Proposal), director; Kristin Hahn (Anthem), writer, producer; Mohamed AlRafi (film debut), Michael Costigan (A Bigger Splash) and Trish Hofmann (Notorious), producers; Jake Monaco (Let’s Be Cops), composer; Elliot Davis (Out of Sight), cinematographer; Emma E. Hickox (Kinky Boots), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Willowdean Dickson (Macdonald), the plus-size teenage daughter of former beauty queen Rosie Dickson (Aniston), defies expectations by signing up for her mother’s Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant, in a protest that escalates when other contestants follow in her footsteps, which ends up revolutionising the pageant and their small Texas town…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Rising star Danielle Macdonald co-stars with Jennifer Aniston in this musical comedy that redefines what is normally considered to be “beautiful” in the world of pageantry.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 7TH DECEMBER 2018 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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