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Pretty Baby

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Pretty Baby (1978)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:11

Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Director Louis Malle tackled a social taboo and made 12-year-old Brooke Shields a star with this controversial examination of child prostitution in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Violet (Shields)... Director Louis Malle tackled a social taboo and made 12-year-old Brooke Shields a star with this controversial examination of child prostitution in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Violet (Shields) is the daughter of a prostitute (Susan Sarandon) who works at one of the brothels in New Orleans' legendary red-light district, Storyville. One day photographer Ernest Bellocq (Keith Carradine) arrives at the brothel to take photos of the prostitutes and becomes fascinated with Violet, who is fast approaching her 12th birthday and a subsequent initiation into prostitution. When her mother moves to St. Louis in search of marriage and respectability, Violet determines to marry the much older Bellocq. Malle infuses the potentially lurid subject matter with a lyrical beauty that brings humanity to his characters and story, with the assistance of a sensitive script by Polly Platt and superb cinematography by Sven Nykvist. [More]

Starring: Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Frances Faye

Starring: Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas, Gerrit Graham, Mae Mercer, Diana Scarwid

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Louis Malle
Screenwriter: Polly Platt
Story: Polly Platt, Louis Malle
Producer: Louis Malle
Composer: Jerry Wexler

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Cole Smithey
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An inert and boring morality tale that should please neither sensationalists nor puritans.

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While it oozes with atmosphere and Sarandon is superb, the story never comes together and Malle's treatment of Shields is kinda creepy.

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powerfully disturbing

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Andy Klein
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Los Angeles CityBeat

It was shocking in its day, perhaps... but today... [it] can’t hope to be as provocative...

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08/08/04
MaryAnn Johanson
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Sexy Sarandon in an early role as the whore mom of child prostitute Brook Shields.

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01/31/04
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

worthy of strong consideration

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11/14/03
Christopher Null
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It was once shocking and dull. Now it's just dull.

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Susan Sarandon, as Hattie, is seamless and flawless, not to mention at her shapliest best.

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