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May 8, 2008 · The documentary "America the Beautiful" is not shrill or alarmist, nor does it strain to shock us. Darryl Roberts, its director and narrator, speaks mostly in a pleasant, low-key voice. But the film is pulsing with barely suppressed rage, and by the end, I shared it. It's about a culture "saturated with the perfect," in which women are taught to seek an impossible physical ideal, and men to worship it.
Aug 1, 2008 · America the Beautiful. R Released Aug 1, 2008 1h 45m Documentary List. 73% 33 Reviews Tomatometer 66% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Questions and interviews explore America's obsession with beauty ...
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America the Beautiful: With Michael B. Jordan. America's unique geography shapes the land, driving nature's forces to extremes and reshaping the landscape, presenting new challenges for life.
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Jul 31, 2008 · The movie ends with a soapbox plea from Roberts to seek inner beauty, accompanied by a barrage of self-help Web sites and publications that make “America the Beautiful” feel more like an ...
America the Beautiful. 40 Metascore. 2007. 1 hr 45 mins. Documentary. R. Watchlist. Eye-opening and revealing documentary gets the skinny on the country's obsession with physical perfection ...
Aug 1, 2008 · At the heart of “America the Beautiful” is the story of Gerren Taylor, a teenager who went from being an innocent 12 year old girl to being one of America’s next top supermodels. As she and her mother head down the windy road to stardom, viewers watch the dichotomy between Gerren's adolescent struggles and her adult “rights of passage ...
In a society where models who weigh less than 90 pounds die from malnutrition, female body image is one of the more dire problems we face. "America the Beautiful" illuminates the issue by covering child models, plastic surgery, celebrity worship, airbrushed advertising, and dangerous cosmetics.
