Not a Pretty Picture

Not a Pretty Picture is a 1976 American docudrama film. The film was written, produced and directed by Martha Coolidge, marking her narrative feature film directorial debut, after years of working as a documentary filmmaker in the early to mid-1970s.

Not a Pretty Picture
Film poster
Directed byMartha Coolidge
Written byMartha Coolidge
Produced byMartha Coolidge
Starring
  • Michelle Manenti
  • Jim Carrington
  • Anne Mundstuk
Cinematography
Edited by
  • Suzanne Pettit
  • Martha Coolidge
Music byTom Griffith
Production
company
Coolidge Productions
Distributed byFilms Inc.
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film is a retelling about Coolidge, who was date raped when she was sixteen years old.[1][2] The film follows the aftermath of the incident on the main character.[3][4] In 2022, The Academy Film Archive in partnership with Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation restored 'Not a Pretty Picture', with funds generously provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. The Restoration premiered on December 8th 2022 at the Academy Museum in Hollywood. In 2023 Not a Pretty Picture screened at Berlinale, selected by Céline Sciamma.[5]

Cast
  • Michele Manenti as Martha at 16
  • Jim Carrington as Curly
  • Anne Mundstuk as herself
  • Reed Birney as Fred
  • John Fedinatz as West Virginia
  • Diana Gold as Jane
  • Stephen Laurier as Brian
  • Lillah McCarthy as Nancy
  • Janet Morrison as Bunny
  • Melissa Murdock as Leah
  • Hal Studer as Mr. Cullen
  • Amy Wright as Cindy

References
  1. Martha Coolidge profile , SheMadeIt.org Archived February 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Not a Pretty Picture (1976), TCM
  3. "Not a Pretty Picture (1976)" – via letterboxd.com.
  4. "Four Decades On, Martha Coolidge's "Not a Pretty Picture" Is Still Paving the Way". The Village Voice. June 7, 2018.
  5. "2023 Retrospective "Young at Heart – Coming of Age at the Movies"". Berlinale.


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