The Body Beautiful
6.219910h 25mmovie
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...
Drama
Top 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
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