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Pretty Hurts

Pretty Hurts

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Pretty Hurts

"Brought to you by GSK."

2025

1h 30m

7.0(1 votes)

Drama

TV Movie

Overview

To win scholarship money for college, Lauren enters the same beauty pageant her mom once dominated in her youth. Lauren is thrust into a dark, toxic world of cutthroat competition and manipulation. Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren doesn’t realize that her best friend Rae is falling seriously ill with an uncommon and potentially deadly disease — meningitis B – prompting her to turn the pageant platform into a tool for awareness.

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9 featured cast members

Starring

Sarah Borne

Sarah Borne

Lauren

Haylie Duff

Haylie Duff

Julie

Kaci Barker

Rae

Haley Gosserand

Haley Gosserand

Brianna

Cyane Gan

Nora

Hannah Westerfield

Hannah Westerfield

Maddy

Rachael Markarian

Rachael Markarian

Helene Matthews

Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw

Michael

Jon Lindstrom

Jon Lindstrom

Roger

Creative team

Directed by: Brian Herzlinger
Written by: Lydia Genner
Produced by: Eric Tomosunas
Chad Tennies

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