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   Jan 1, 2001 · Steven Levenkron. 3.68. 5,430 ratings187 reviews. I am Kessa! My parents call me Francesca, and sometimes I answer. But the Francesca who was me is disappearing. The Dietrichs' good little girl is dropping away with every bit of fat. Kessa doesn't have to eat--eating is messy, not clean.

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   • Author: Steven Levenkron

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   Mar 21, 2023 · 1981's 'The Best Little Girl in the World' was the 1st-ever TV movie about anorexia. Experts grapple with its legacy today.

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   8 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. good tv movie with an early Jennifer Jason Lee-why only 3 comments? triple8 21 April 2004. Wow-I'm really surprised this movie didn't make more of a mark. Jennifer jason lee is absolutely great here playing a young girl who develops anorexia.

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   READ REVIEW. THE BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD. by Steven Levenkron ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1978. Anorexia nervosa, the trendy, sometimes fatal mental illness partial to well-off teenage girls--in a haft-heartedly fictionalized but morbidly intriguing case history.

   • Author: Steven Levenkron

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   Parents (Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint) learn their teenage daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has the eating disorder anorexia nervosa.

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   • Director: Sam O'steen

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   It received mixed reviews from critics, with Kirkus Reviews praising the book's portrayal of Kessa's therapist, but criticizing the protagonist's "less-than-convincing interior monologues" and the plot ending that "promises a bit too zippy a cure, and certainly doesn't furnish the eye-opening epiphany required for gripping psycho-drama."

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   Who wrote the best little girl in the world?

   • 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.

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   Is the best little girl in the world based on a true story?

   • The Best Little Girl in the World is a 1981 television film directed by Sam O’Steen and executive produced by Aaron Spelling. The film is based upon the 1979 novel of the same name written by Steven Levenkron. Seventeen-year-old Casey Powell is a shy teenaged cheerleader who gets good grades and dreams of being a professional ballet dancer.

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   Is 'the best little girl in the world' about anorexia?

   • Maine, who has treated patients with eating disorders for 40 years and authored six books on the topic, says that she and other experts at the time found The Best Little Girl in the World to be "oversimplified… ego-driven…and very, very stereotypical," showing anorexia as a white, middle-class, girls-only issue.

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   Why does Kessa eat a lot in 'the best little girl in the world'?

   • Kessa goes by "Francesca" again and begins eating small portions of food, hoping to be able to overcome her illness. The Best Little Girl in the World was in part based on Levenkron's experiences with deceased musician Karen Carpenter, who later died in 1983 after a long struggle with an eating disorder.

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   Sam O'Steen. Synopsis. 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...