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The Best Little Girl in the World is a 1979 American young adult coming of age novel by Steven Levenkron, telling the story of Kessa, a fictional teenager who suffers from an eating disorder. The book was originally published by Warner Books in 1979.
The Best Little Girl in the World. Parents (Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint) learn their teenage daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.
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2h 1981. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Film Details. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Read More. The story of a teenager suffering the disorder anorexia nervosa -- the deliberate starving either by excessive dieting or self-induced vomiting -- in the case of this plot, by her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Cast & crew. User reviews. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. The Best Little Girl in the World. Summaries. A young girl develops an eating disorder, alternately starving herself or throwing up food. Her parents, angry and desperate, send her to a hospital. Unfortunately, she befriends a patient who convinces her to hide her illness.
Overview. Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures. Sam O'Steen. Director. Steven Levenkron. Novel. David Moessinger. Teleplay.
May 11, 1981 · Synopsis by Bernadette McCallion. A young girl's dangerous dance with dieting leads to near disaster in this exceptional made-for-television drama. In one of the earliest treatments of the subject, Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Casey Powell, the quiet daughter of an overbearing mother and milquetoast father.
Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school.
