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| HULU | Season Premiere Date: April 3, 2023 |
Summary:
The two-part documentary from Lana Wilson about the life and career of Brooke Shields features archival footage and a new interview with Sheilds.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E2. Part 2
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E1. Part 1
Air Date: November 30, -0001
Mar 6, 2023
Apr 3, 2023
Apr 3, 2023
RogerEbert.com
Mar 6, 2023
The moments that most reveal how far she has come are those with her family. When her daughters talk to her about their views on her early sexualized roles, we can feel how meaningful it is to her to give them the kind of ownership of their voices she had to work so hard to achieve.
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Apr 5, 2023
Where Pretty Baby really shines is in the theoretical framing brought on by authors, journalists, lecturers, and sociologists. Names like Meenakshi Durham, Scaachi Koul, and Jean Kilbourne – author of The Lolita Effect, Senior Culture Writer at Buzzfeed, and media literacy lecturer, respectively – turn the whirlwind life of a child star into a case study for women’s position within the western patriarchal society, further twisted by the visual power of the last century’s consumerist turn.
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Mar 31, 2023
There are elements here that hint at a better template. ... The best scene in the documentary, by a wide margin, is a dinner in which Shields and her daughters try to make sense of what was progressive and what was regressive about her early career; it’s funny, relaxed and still welcomely analytical. That scene is a blueprint for the type of unstaged or differently staged approach that could have elevated the documentary from being solid and interesting to truly revelatory.
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Apr 3, 2023
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Air Date: April 3, 2023
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S1:E2. Part 2
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E1. Part 1
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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