Pretty Baby (1978)

Pretty Baby poster

Paramount Pictures
Starring:
 Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon
Directed by: Louis Malle

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: Set in New Orleans, 1917.  Violet (Brooke Shields) is the teenaged daughter of a brothel prostitute (Susan Sarandon) who strikes up a relationship with a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine).

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): At one point in the film Violet runs away from the brothel and turns up at the home of Bellocq. The next morning she wakes up to find a tabby cat eating off the tray of food Bellocq has left for her.

Pretty Baby - young Brooke Shields sharing breakfast with tabby cat

The cat then drinks from the glass of milk, which Violet takes to drink from then replaces. What’s cute is the cat keeps licking as if it thinks the milk is still at the same level.

Pretty Baby - tabby cat drinking milk from glass in front of a young Brooke Shields

Pretty Baby - tabby cat drinking milk from glass in front of a young Brooke Shields animated gif

Final Mewsings: Cats don’t really understand the laws of physics.


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