Summaries

Follows actor, model, and icon Brooke Shields as she becomes a woman who discovers her power after being a sexualized young girl. She shows the dangers and triumphs of gaining agency in a hostile world.

A profile of Brooke Shields is presented. Now at age fifty-six, her life is largely presented as two very different phases separated by the surprise to many of she having gone to Princeton for a college education in her late teens/early twenties. The pre-Princeton life focuses on the control wielded by her divorced mother, Teri Shields, in wanting to present her beautiful daughter to the world in what would be a highly sexualized manner in her childhood, most controversially in Pretty Baby (1978) when Brooke was eleven, the movie which included her appearing nude. The post-Princeton life focuses on her trying to find her voice as an adult, especially what the public would accept her as if she indeed wanted a life in the public eye most specifically as an actress, and how she would break free from a world which was highly controlled for her up until that point.—Huggo

Details

Keywords
  • life
  • actress
  • career
  • hulu
  • reference to brooke shields
Genres
  • Biography
  • Documentary
Release date Apr 2, 2023
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-MA
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Production companies ABC News Studios Bedby8 Drifting Cloud Productions

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 9m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.78 : 1

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