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Based on Julie Murphy's young adult bestseller, Anne Fletcher's coming-of-age comedy puts a spotlight on the complexity of a mother-daughter relationship as former beauty queen Rosie (Jennifer Aniston) and her plus-size teenage daughter, Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), navigate years of unresolved conflict between them. Case in point: It doesn't help that Rosie keeps calling Willowdean Dumplin,' because she thinks her daughter looks like a "round little dumplin'."
Finally, our title heroine figures out a way for her mom to hear her out. Why not enter the small town's annual Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant, which Rosie manages? This way, she can put forward her "heels in protest." And so begins the unraveling of long-simmering resentments and tensions between the mom and her daughter. Will they ever reconcile their differences?