Margaret Cho Beautiful (2009)

Learning to love her luscious self over the past forty years comedian Margaret Cho realized that the eye of the beholder doesnt hold all the power when it comes to beauty Our tastes may be groomed by the media but how we feel about how we look brings our selfimage into focus Armed with something more potent than lip gloss a mouth so shocking and raunchy it should be stamped with a warning Cho toured America with her manifesto This show is really about how we should feel beautiful says Cho When you feel beautiful youre going to have more of a willingness to use your voice to speak Shot at the Long Beach Terrace Theater Chos latest standup concert film Beautiful explores the good bad and downright ugly in beauty and the unattractive politicians and marketers who shape our world