Great Trailer for Documentary Feature PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS

A new trailer has been released for the documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which follows the rise of Brooke Shields’s career as a child actress and model, from her perspective now. The film was made by Emmy-winning director Lana Wilson, who previously made Miss Americana , The Departure, and After Tiller.

Here’s the full description of the documentary:

Brooke Shields, ’80s icon and household name, was a child model before she came to prominence in Louis Malle’s controversial film Pretty Baby at age 12. With a series of provocative Calvin Klein jeans ads and leading roles in 1980s teensploitation hits The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, Shields’ early career was defined by a sexuality that she could neither claim nor comprehend.

In this two-part documentary, director Lana Wilson (Miss Americana, 2020 Sundance Film Festival) reveals Shields’ story through media appearances and archival footage, bringing full context to the time when Shields was coming of age in public. Wilson creates space for the adult Shields to share her intelligence, vulnerability, and humanity while reflecting on her career and life, including her complex relationship with her mother, Teri, her marriage to Andre Agassi, and her own struggles with motherhood. Honest and incisive, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields critiques a toxic culture and power structure that perpetuates misogyny and is complicit in the sexualization and objectification of young girls. But, above all, it tells the moving story of Brooke Shields discovering and embracing her own identity and agency.

This looks like such a poignant and well-done doc, exploring important themes in our society. Check out the trailer below, and watch the two-part doc Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields when it arrives on Hulu on April 3rd.