Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Anniston in Netflix’s Dumplin’
Based on Julie Murphy’s YA novel, Dumplin’ is a total delight. Here are a few of the totally delightful things you will see in the Netflix dramedy’s 110 minutes: talent show yodeling, Dolly Parton drag queens teaching youths how to vogue, and Jennifer Aniston blow-drying away her tears.
“Dumplin’” is the nickname given to rebellious teen Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) by her former beauty queen mother Rosie (Aniston, embodying a jazzercising Southern belle very convincingly), who still organizes the local pageant in their small Texas town. Upset by her mom’s fat-phobic insensitivity and inspired by the confidence of her late aunt, Willowdean decides to enter the competition and lead a “revolution in heels.”