The Body Beautiful

The Body Beautiful (1991)

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.

star 5.9 6.4
  • Release Date: 1991-10-03
  • Runtime: 0h 25min
  • Director: Ngozi Onwurah

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    • Cast

    • 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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