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Directed and produced by. Louis Malle. Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby" is a pleasant surprise: After all the controversy and scandal surrounding its production, it turns out to be a good-hearted, good-looking, quietly elegiac movie.
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter...
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Pretty Baby. A photographer in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who takes pictures in the red-light district, becomes bewitched by a prepubescent girl being raised in the brothel where her mother works. 3,012 IMDb 6.5 1 h 49 min 1978. X-Ray R. Drama · Serious · Bold · Eerie. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $3.99. Buy. SD $12.39.
Overview. 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.
Dec 8, 2008 · Set in 1917 New Orleans and the infamous red light district of Storyville, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978) centers on a beautiful prostitute Hattie (Susan Sarandon) and her 12-year-old "trick baby" daughter Violet (Brooke Shields).
Internationally acclaimed director Louis Malle has taken a taboo subject - child prostitution - and has created in Pretty Baby a film of humanity and beauty. E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine) is a photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district.
Apr 5, 1978 · After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute working in New Orleans' Storyville district at the turn of the century.
