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3	->''"Raised on hamburgers and soda pop,\
4	She's got a winning smile that's hard to top.\
5	A credit to her family, the ideal teen,\
6	She's all America's daughter, she's a beauty queen."''
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8	A 1975 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Creator/MichaelRitchie, centering around a California beauty pageant and its participants.
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10	The large EnsembleCast includes Creator/BruceDern, Creator/BarbaraFeldon, Creator/MichaelKidd, Creator/GeoffreyLewis, Creator/EricShea, Creator/NicholasPryor, Creator/TitosVandis, Creator/PaulBenedict, Creator/WilliamTraylor, and Creator/DennisDugan, among others.
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12	It was released on July 9, 1975.
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16	!!Tropes for the film:
17	* AteHisGun: Subverted. Andy (Pryor), at the end of his rope, has a pistol to his mouth when his wife smirks "If you've got a problem, don't try to solve it, just take the coward's way out". He stops to consider the cause of his condition... and turns the gun on her.
18	* BeautyContest: The film is a dark comedic satire of beauty pageants.
19	* DarkHorseVictory: The plot concerns a beauty pageant, and while a number of the contestants are given a spotlight in the story, the actual winner is a character who wasn't featured at all. In fact, the girl given the most screentime doesn't even place.
20	* HehHehYouSaidX: One subplot features a trio of boys trying to get pictures of the beauty pageant contestants. One of them, Freddy, continually riffs on the contestants' names (and other things):
21	--> '''Little Bob''': ''(getting out a car)'' Keep the motor running.\
22	'''Freddy''': I got ''my'' motor running!\
23	'''Chuck''': Aw, geez.\
24	'''Freddy''': Look at that one from Bakersfield! Ah, I got something she can bake in her field.\
25	'''Chuck''': ''[{{Beat}}]'' I hate him.
26	* OneWordTitle: '''Smile'''.
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