Hollywood eats pretty girls alive — and these two are hungry.
Two teenage girls run away to Hollywood, chasing stardom, but their dreams lead them into prostitution, trapping them in the dark underbelly of the sex work industry as they travel from Texas to California.
Acting
Benson and Lind reportedly raw-dogging desperation without vanity.
Direction
Evans framing LA as predator, not promise.
Director
Tyler-Marie Evans
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title deliberately evokes the 1978 Louis Malle film 'Pretty Baby,' itself controversial for depicting child prostitution — this appears to be a spiritual successor interrogating the same exploitation decades later with female authorship.
Casting Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale's Cheryl Blossom) against her polished image suggests intentional commentary on how teen starlets are manufactured and consumed by the same industry the film condemns.
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