Jennifer Aniston, who's filmed a number of movies in metro Atlanta in recent years, is back again. This time she plays Rosie Dickson, a beauty queen turned pageant director in "Dumplin'"

The plot, per imdb: "girl with the nickname 'Dumplin" enters a beauty pageant in order to win over the boy she likes and stick it to the other girls at school." Anne Fletcher directs the movie, based on the novel by Julie Murphy.

Here's a photo from the set:

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