格雷西的母亲是一名出色的联邦特工，在一次任务中不幸殉职。格雷西（桑德拉•布洛克 Sandra Bullock 饰）长大后继承了母亲的事业，也成为了一名联邦特工。格雷西从小就脾气刚烈、不修边幅，作为“假小子”的她并不受欢迎，只有她的拍档兼好友艾瑞克（本杰明•布拉特 Benjamin Bratt 饰）理解她。FBI获悉有一伙恐怖分子准备在美国小姐选美时制造恐怖袭击，为挫败这次阴谋，FBI决定派卧底参加选美。任务自然落到了格雷西身上。经过造型师的巧手，格雷西令所有人都眼前一亮，她的“假小子”性格自然也令到这次任务笑料百出。直到美国小姐庆典举行当晚，一切似乎都没有异常。然而，当格雷西和一众佳丽站到台上时，意外发生了！
讲述1970年世界小姐选美比赛是全球亿万观众瞩目的国际盛事，一个新组成的女权组织认为选美是贬低女性，因此极力反对，更于比赛期间在众目睽睽下冲上舞台，扰乱和阻碍比赛进行。虽然她们立即就被逐离场，而比赛亦继续进行，但更触动观众神经的一幕却随即上演：当晚夺冠的佳丽竟然不是大热的瑞典小姐，而是来自西印度群岛岛国格林纳达的JenniferHosten，以黑马之姿成为史上首位获胜的黑人女性。就在短短一小时内，全球观众亲眼目睹父权主义被公然挑战，西方审美观亦被全然颠覆，一场选美翻起千重浪，亦为女权运动打下漂亮的一仗。
戏剧院的悲惨三级喜剧演员阿奇被瘟疫蚕食，然而他却幸存下来，变得目中无人和唯利是图，他许久，开国际玩笑，说冷笑话，大声谈论性事，对政治豪放厥词。阿奇还引诱自己的父亲提前退休后拿他的退休金恶意投资，最终还是全军覆没，这样像狗屎一样的人生，他在用自己的方式演绎一个社会中的普通人，然而把他放大来看，其实他只是社会中的一名艺人而已。
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
7岁的奥利芙（阿比盖尔·布蕾斯琳 Abigail Breslin 饰），戴眼镜，小肚腩，做着一夜成名的美梦，坚信自己有朝一日能当选美国小姐。爸爸（格雷戈·金尼尔 Greg Kinnear 饰），推销成功学书籍的讲师，认为“世界上只有两种人，成功者和失败者”，四处贩卖他的“成功九部曲”；哥哥（保罗·达诺 Paul Dano 饰），自闭男，崇拜尼采，为了考上飞行学院发哑誓，九个月没有同家人说话；舅舅（史蒂夫·卡瑞尔 Steve Carell 饰），自称是美国最好的普鲁斯特研究学者，同性恋，恋人和同事跑掉、失业，自杀未遂，生活混乱；爷爷（艾伦·阿金 Alan Arkin 饰），被养老院赶出来的老流氓，满嘴脏话、吸毒；妈妈（托妮·克莱特 Toni Collette 饰），是这个疯狂家庭唯一正常的人。在家人的支持下，奥利芙参加了“阳光小美女”的选美比赛，一家人踏上了集体寻梦的旅程。
亚历克斯是一个优雅的9岁男孩，他的梦想是：有一天当选法国小姐。15年后，亚历克斯失去了父母和自信心，陷入了单调的生活。一次意外将唤醒这个被遗忘的梦想。然后，亚历克斯决定隐瞒自己的男孩身份，以争夺法国小姐。
Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant.
一个生活在荒漠拖车场里的年轻女人必须在照顾不幸的父亲及生病的朋友和实现自己人生梦想之间作出选择。
当地议员Sidney Fiddler说服市长通过举办选美比赛来帮助改善他们破败的海滨小镇的形象。但令人敬畏的议员普罗德沃西，当地妇女解放运动的负责人，却有其他想法。这是一场公开的战争，因为妇女解放军试图破坏比赛。
A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Keeping the position of number one son requires a certain amount of ingenuity. Twelve year old Greg has inherited his father's competitive streak. On a family holiday to Fiji they have different ideas about where Greg should focus his talents. When his creative pursuits fail to amuse his father Greg goes to bizarre lengths to win him back.
Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Advocate Ramesh saves Devan from a murder case. Later, he realize Devan was the actual culprit. Ramesh tries for a payback, unaware of Devan's real intentions and the reason for the murder.
故事开始于法国北部的两个小村庄之间，它们一个叫“查茅斯村”，另一个叫“超级查茅斯村”。查茅斯村是一个非常穷困的村子，生活在其中的人过着落后的生活，忍受着拮据的经济状况，而超级查茅斯村就截然不同了，每一年举办的选美大赛的头筹，都由那个村子派出的选手获得。久而久之两个村子之间的积怨加深，村民们更是水火不容。
Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title in order to marry Jeffrey Woodstock. She hopes to realize her past ambitions for fame and fortune through her daughter Kay, whom she persuades to enter a local beauty contest. Kay wins and is interviewed by reporter Gil McRoberts, who advises her to get married and settle down. Jeffrey is very upset with his wife's and daughter's passion for beauty contests and, when Kay enters the national contest, he informs Marian that she must choose between him and her chase after empty honors for Kay.
Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a history of the contest (which has run eccentrically since 1972) which was set up firstly as an excuse to have a good party, but has grown into a celebration of alternative lifestyles and sexualities. The documentary mixes archive footage, animated inserts, with talking head interviews and a fly-on-the-wall look at the organisation of the 2009 event