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  • 2008
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  • Arenas Group
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  • Arenas Group
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Summary Who actually benefits from this high-priced journey towards this ideal? Is corporate America’s bottom line so important that it justifies a nation’s psychosis? What are the true costs of our obsession with youth, beauty, and a slender physique? At the heart of “America the Beautiful” is the story of Gerren Taylor, a teenager who went fro...

Directed By: Darryl Roberts

Written By: Darryl Roberts

  • 2008
  • R
  • Arenas Group
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Arenas Group
  • 1 h 45 m

America the Beautiful

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Who actually benefits from this high-priced journey towards this ideal? Is corporate America’s bottom line so important that it justifies a nation’s psychosis? What are the true costs of our obsession with youth, beauty, and a slender physique? At the heart of “America the Beautiful” is the story of Gerren Taylor, a teenager who went fro...

Directed By: Darryl Roberts

Written By: Darryl Roberts

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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31% Mixed
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31% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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75
Mostly succeeds in unmasking the flaws of fetishizing skin-deep beauty.
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America the Beautiful carries a persuasive message, and is all the more effective because of the level tone that Roberts adopts.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
67
A wide-ranging, disturbing look at our obsession with our looks.
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
50
Takes its point -- our nation has an unhealthy obsession with beauty and physical perfection -- and uses it as a bludgeon.
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Wide-ranging educational documentary attaches itself to the rise and fall of a 12-year-old fashion model, and indeed, its sincere, cautionary tone seems best suited to younger auds and small screen exposure.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
25
Roberts blunders amiably and cluelessly through his amateurish eyesore of a documentary on society's obsession with beauty, perpetually searching for a thesis that will transform a shambling mess of half-baked thoughts and pointless digressions into a real documentary.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
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Clueless, directionless and altogether pointless.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sensory Overload Productions
Release Date Aug 1, 2008
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
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Tagline Does America have an unhealthy obsession with beauty?
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Awards

Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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