The Body Beautiful backdrop
The Body Beautiful poster
Trailer
The Body Beautiful
6.0
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0h 23m
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1991
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Released
Overview
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

Cast
Madge Onwurah poster
Madge Onwurah
Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
Rosie Rowell poster
Rosie Rowell
Narrator (voice) Daughter
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre poster
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
The Daughter (as Sian Martin)
Brian Bovell poster
Brian Bovell
Young Man
Maureen Douglass poster
Maureen Douglass
Young Mother
Valentine Nonyela poster
Valentine Nonyela
Peter
Louis Altinson poster
Louis Altinson
Linda Dobson poster
Linda Dobson
Richard Gray poster
Richard Gray
Haley McKay poster
Haley McKay
Michael McKay poster
Michael McKay
Nina McKay poster
Nina McKay
Saffron Burrows poster
Saffron Burrows
Model
Nadja Carr poster
Nadja Carr
Model
Ann Parks poster
Ann Parks
Model
Jane Yeomans poster
Jane Yeomans
Model
Novlet poster
Novlet
Model

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