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Pretty Baby

Cast

Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye View All

Crew

Louis Malle (Director), Louis Malle (Story), Polly Platt (Screenplay), Polly Platt (Story) View All

Release: Apr. 5th, 1978

Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Hattie, a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.

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Citizen Rules
The movie does world building quite well and we see in detail the inner workings of a brothel and from the women's viewpoint, which is unusual for a film.

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Gideon58
The setting of this steamy story is an elegant brothel in 1917 Orleans where we meet a free-spirited prostitute named Hattie (Susan Sarandon) who seems content raising her 12-year old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields) to follow in her footsteps until the arrival of an attractive and enigmatic photog....