Forever Fabulous

1999Movie⏱️ 1h 45m

ComedyDrama

⭐ 6.8

IMDB Rating

96 votes

Beauty queen road trip about mother and daughter pageant pros going back home to Texas for a shot at redemption.

Director

Werner Molinsky

Writers

N/A

Stars

Jean Smart, Jennifer Elise Cox, Emily Procter

Release Date

October 7, 1999

Language

English

Country

United States

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Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Jean Smart

as Loreli Daly

Jennifer Elise Cox

as Corinne Daly

Emily Procter

as Tiffany Dawl

Jack Plotnick

as Adam

Mink Stole

as Miss Vi Ambrose

Jorja Fox

as Liz Guild

Robert Wagner

as Lyle Devereaux Green

Jan Cobler

as PTA Mother

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Bridgit Dengel

as PTA Mother

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Francesca Hilton

as PTA Mother

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound

Mono

Color

Production

Filbert Steps Productions

🏷️ Keywords

alliterative titletwo word titlereference to bette davisdrag queenbeauty pageant judge

🎯 Categories

SatireComedyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Aging beauty queen seeks redemption in new pageant.

by ryanburg-3 • 1999-10-14

7/10

"Jean Smart (Designing Women, The Brady Bunch Movie) stars with Robert Wagner (Austin Powers 1 & 2 , What Price Glory, Crazy in Alabama) in this professionally made satire of beauty pageants. Smart is former and aging Miss Texas Gal 1968 who was also a formerly successful pageant manager until a notorious scandal caused her to flee Texas for Mississippi. Her beauty queen daughter is graduating from beautician college and dreams of going to Hollywood to be a makeup artist to the stars. Smart receives an offer to coach a beauty pageant in Paris, Texas and her boyfriend Lyle (Wagner) persuade..."

💡 Did You Know?

The script evolved from a planned but never-filmed short called "Feminist Warriors" (which was loosely based on the JonBenét Ramsey murder) and was slated to star Jean Smart, Cathy Moriarty and Suzanne Pleshette. The script underwent a massive rewrite and, in the end, only Smart stayed with the project.