Charles Durning
Frank Powell
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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.
- Drama
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...
Jan 1, 2001 · Steven Levenkron. 3.68. 5,427 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
