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Little Miss pageants are a perfect storm of hope and anxiety, of dreams and despair – as young families bet the farm on thousand dollar dresses and dentures for children barely out of diapers.

To supporters, there is no better training ground for life, as the girls are schooled in poise and competition, gaining skills they will use for life. For detractors, the pageants are exploitative and inappropriate, pushing children to grow up far too soon.

For or against, you can’t take your eyes off this strangely American phenomenon.

Little Miss Perfect sidesteps the politics to tell the personal stories of a dozen families – primarily mothers and daughters – who stop at nothing to win a crown.

Set against the pageant training school run by world-renowned pageant expert, Michael Galanes, Little Miss Perfect takes a behind-the-scenes look at the world of "Little Miss" pageants and reveals what this world is really like.