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Watch this: Fort Worth author's best-selling novel 'Dumplin'' is now on Netflix

Dumplin', the novel-turned-movie from local author Julie Murphy, premiered on Netflix on Dec. 7.

Murphy unleashed a runaway hit when the novel came out in September of 2015. The book is about a plus-sized teenage girl who signs up for a beauty pageant run by her former beauty queen of a mother. Of course, it's only to prove a point.

Jennifer Aniston (one of the best Friends) plays the mother, Rosie. Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) plays Willowdean, aka Dumplin'.

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Music icon Dolly Parton reworked many of her songs and wrote some new ones for the movie's soundtrack, which was released last month. All indicators are good: Parton and powerhouse songwriter Linda Perry received a Golden Globe nomination Dec. 6 for best song for "Girl in the Movies."

Murphy said in a September interview that the movie "has been in the works since the summer of 2015, when Disney initially acquired the film rights." The movie was finally made in 2017.

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Dumplin' is also playing on the big screen in select cities at iPic Theaters. That includes iPic Fairview, 321 Town Place, Fairview.

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