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    The Best Little Girl in the World

    1981 · Drama · 1h 36m

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  1. 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 .

    • Drama
  2. May 11, 1981 · The Best Little Girl in the World: Directed by Sam O'Steen. With Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Mayron. A young girl develops an eating disorder, alternately starving herself or throwing up food. Her parents, angry and desperate, send her to a hospital.

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    • Drama
    • Sam O'Steen
    • 1981-05-11
  3. Sep 2, 2020 · Parents learn that their teenage daughter has the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa.

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  4. Mar 21, 2023 · I will never forget the first pop culture depiction that I saw about an eating disorder: 1981's The Best Little Girl in the World, a high-drama, Emmy-nominated TV-movie starring...

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  5. 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.

  6. Brief Synopsis. 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.

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

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