Pretty Baby

Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields).

When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.

• Release date: April 5, 1978 (USA)
• Director: Louis Malle
• Box Office: $5,786,368
• Screenplay: Polly Platt
• Running time: 109 minutes
• Production company: Paramount Pictures
• Story by: Louis Malle, Polly Platt