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Pretty Baby is a american film of genre Drama directed by Louis Malle released in USA on 5 april 1978 with Brooke Shields

Pretty Baby (1978)

Pretty Baby
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Released in USA 5 april 1978
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating65% 3.2555453.2555453.2555453.2555453.255545

Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical fiction and drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt. The plot focuses on a 12-year-old prostitute in the red-light district of New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century.

The title of the film is inspired by the Tony Jackson song, "Pretty Baby," which is used in the soundtrack. Although the film was mostly praised by critics, it caused significant controversy due to its depiction of child prostitution and scenes of the nude Brooke Shields, who was 12 years old.

Synopsis

In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.

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