Chicago-based filmmaker Darryl Roberts' first documentary is a sprawling, messy, frustrating and impassioned examination of the psychological fallout from America's obsession with a highly artificial and all-but unattainable standard of beauty.
Roberts, a music video and commercial director who has also has two independent features, THE PERFECT MODEL (1989) and HOW U LIKE ME NOW (1993), to his credits, starts out with a confession. He once let a smart, beautiful, altogether wonderful woman get away because he secretly believed that somewhere there was someone with all her great qualities and even better looks. Years later, he asks himself why, and doc...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins