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The Body Beautiful
6.0
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0h 23m
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1991
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
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Madge Onwurah
Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
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Rosie Rowell
Narrator (voice) Daughter
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Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
The Daughter (as Sian Martin)
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Brian Bovell
Young Man
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Maureen Douglass
Young Mother
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Valentine Nonyela
Peter
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Louis Altinson
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Linda Dobson
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Richard Gray
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Haley McKay
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Michael McKay
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Nina McKay
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Saffron Burrows
Model
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Nadja Carr
Model
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Ann Parks
Model
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