Alfred Hitchcock's Body of Work
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Publicly, Hitch joked about his rotund figure, even integrating it into his personal brand. But privately, his weight was a source of lifelong distress. He once expressed these feelings to a biographer, and this film brings his words to life, contrasting them with rarely-seen Hitchcock family home movies.
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