Nip, tuck, repeat. Louis gets under the skin of plastic-surgery patients in Beverly Hills.
America is hooked on cosmetic surgery – and nowhere more so than Beverly Hills.
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In this eyebrow-raising program, the British filmmaker meets the plastic-surgery patients that crowd the city’s clinics, joining them for consultations and operations as they seek everlasting youth. What motivates them to irrevocably alter themselves – as Louis wonders if he himself could do with a nip and tuck?
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