Movie Reviews for Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby

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Movie Reviews of Pretty Baby

Movie Review: Brooke's first catwalk
Summary: 3 Stars

New Orleans...1916, a house of prostitution which raises young girls to become hookers as soon as they turn 12...and Violet (Brooke) wants to become one too. She is "falls in love" with a photographer & marries him. What else happens? Watch & find out.

Movie Review: 2.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars

The Bottom Line:

A movie set in a brothel (or directed by Louis Malle) can never be boring, but Pretty Baby doesn't really have a plot or characters interesting enough to drive a film; an interesting failure perhaps, but a failure nonetheless.

Movie Review: censorship warning
Summary: 2 Stars

If they gave Academy Awards for small moments, this film would deserve one for the scene in which Violet is being auctioned off, and the camera closes in on the eyes of the Black piano player, full of silent moral judgment. The print is not so lovely, with more glitches and defects than I've seen in years. Even worse, Paramount has chosen to censor the film, by reframing the scene where Violet is tossed out of Belloc's apartment. It's one thing to be locked out of your house, and quite another to be locked out naked. The impact (and irony and pathos) of the scene is lost along with the nudity. What's ridiculous, though, is that uncensored full-frame prints have been showing on DBS/cable for years. Why censor it now? Last one out of the barn lock the door? So we have a choice between uncensored pan & scan or cropped widescreen. After years of overpriced, underfeatured discs (how many times have they released 'better' versions of Star Trek films?), it looks like Paramount has found yet another way to reveal its failure to understand DVDs. A pity this film wasn't released by MGM.

Movie Review: Pretty Baby
Summary: 2 Stars

Was hoping for a bit more with some pretty well know actor's. Cinamatography was excellent, sound was quite well done, but the story line definitely lacked spark.
Not recommended.