This movie is famous for one thing and one thing only - Brooke Shield as a naked twelve-year-old. This movie should be famous for nothing.
It's a story that fakes its way throughout the entire movie. The movie wants to have a heart - showing a grown man kissing a naked preteen is not showing heart. Or courage. Or entertainment.
Besides this movie being extremely distubring, it really is bad. Made in 1978 and set in 1917, I hope it is not an accurate description of the time period, or I would have killed myself if I lived then.
Did this film want to show the horrors of the brothels in World War I? Well, if it did, it did not need to show a naked 12 year old whose mother would do anything to get her famous. Even if Brooke Shields wasn't naked, this movie would still be absolutely unbearable.
Shame on HBO for showing this movie more than once in the past week. Shame on me for watching it.
1/10.
It's a story that fakes its way throughout the entire movie. The movie wants to have a heart - showing a grown man kissing a naked preteen is not showing heart. Or courage. Or entertainment.
Besides this movie being extremely distubring, it really is bad. Made in 1978 and set in 1917, I hope it is not an accurate description of the time period, or I would have killed myself if I lived then.
Did this film want to show the horrors of the brothels in World War I? Well, if it did, it did not need to show a naked 12 year old whose mother would do anything to get her famous. Even if Brooke Shields wasn't naked, this movie would still be absolutely unbearable.
Shame on HBO for showing this movie more than once in the past week. Shame on me for watching it.
1/10.