Pretty Baby (1978)

1h 50m
Running Time

April 5, 1978
Release Date

Pretty Baby (1978)

1h 50m
Running Time

April 5, 1978
Release Date

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Plot.

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, 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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Details.

Release Date
April 5, 1978

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 50m

Content Rating
R

Box Office
$5,786,368

Filming Locations
New Orleans, United States of America

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Wiki.

Pretty Baby is a 1977 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Polly Platt, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. Set in 1917, it focuses on a 12-year-old girl being raised in a brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans by her prostitute mother. Barbara Steele, Diana Scarwid, and Antonio Fargas appear in supporting roles. The film is based on the true account of a young girl who was sexually exploited by being forced into prostitution by her mother, which was recounted in historian Al Rose's 1974 book Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District, as well as the life of photographer Ernest Bellocq, who photographed various New Orleans prostitutes in the early-twentieth century. Its title is derived from the Tony Jackson song of the same name, which is used in the soundtrack.

The project marked Malle's first American film production, as his previous works had been produced in his native France. Filming took place on location in New Orleans in the spring of 1977.

The film was released theatrically in the United States in April 1978, and screened at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d’Or and won the Technical Grand Prize. Ferdinand Morton's score also earned the film an Academy Award nomination for Best Music. Although the film was mostly praised by critics, it caused significant controversy due to its depiction of child sexual exploitation and the on-screen nudity of Shields, who was 11 years old at the time of filming.

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