Private Screening: America the Beautiful

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The hope of achieving these 'ideals' has consumers purchasing cosmetics, toiletries, fashion and plastic surgeries at increasingly dramatic rates. Filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a two year journey to examine America's new obsession; physical perfection. In America the Beautiful, we learn secrets,confessions, and strikingly harsh realities as Roberts unearths the origins and deadly risks of ournation's quest for physical perfection. In America the Beautiful we see how these increasingly unattainable images contribute greatly to the rise in low self-esteem, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders for young women and girls who also happen to be the beauty industry's largest consumers. Whatare the true costs of our obsession with youth, beauty, and a slender physique? Follow Darryl as heasks various other celebrities and experts in cosmetics, fashion, media, and self-esteem the majorquestion at hand...