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Internationally acclaimed director Louis Malle has taken a taboo subject, child prostitution, and created in Pretty Baby a film of humanity and beauty. E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine) is a photographer in 1917 obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans red light district. Violet, 12-year-old Brooke Shields, a young girl, bewitches Bellocq with her curiosity and naive coquettishness. Malle's level-headed treatment of this controversial theme and exceptional performances by the entire cast especially Susan Sarandon as Violet's prostitute mother make Pretty Baby a must see for all serious film fans.