The Body Beautiful

6.3 1991 25 min
Drama

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…

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Director
Ngozi Onwurah
Writer
Ngozi Onwurah

Cast

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

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