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The Body Beautiful

The Body Beautiful

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 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.

Date: 10/03/1991
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Madge Onwurah, Rosie Rowell, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, Brian Bovell, Maureen Douglass, Valentine Nonyela, Louis Altinson, Linda Dobson, Richard Gray, Haley McKay, Michael McKay, Nina McKay, Saffron Burrows, Nadja Carr, Ann Parks, Jane Yeomans, Novlet

Madge Onwurah

Rosie Rowell as Narrator (voice) Daughter in The Body Beautiful Rosie Rowell

Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre as The Daughter (as Sian Martin) in The Body Beautiful Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre

Brian Bovell as Young Man in The Body Beautiful Brian Bovell

Maureen Douglass

Valentine Nonyela as Peter in The Body Beautiful Valentine Nonyela

Louis Altinson

Linda Dobson

Richard Gray

Haley McKay

Michael McKay

Nina McKay

Saffron Burrows as Model in The Body Beautiful Saffron Burrows

Nadja Carr

Ann Parks

Jane Yeomans

Novlet

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