

“A drama of anorexia nervosa. A movie that just might save your child's life.”
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.
Directed by Sam O'Steen, Douglas S. Cramer, Aaron Spelling
User score
8 votes
Released
May 11, 1981
1h 40m
English

Charles Durning
Frank Powell

Eva Marie Saint
Joanne Powell

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Casey Powell

Melanie Mayron
Carol Link

Lisa Pelikan
Gail Powell

Viveca Lindfors
Madame Seurat

David Spielberg
Dr. Garrett

Jason Miller
Clay Orlovsky

Richard Venture
Dr. Neil Holzer

Lenora May
Julie

Laurence Lau
Mark

Michael Dudikoff
Chuck

Stephanie Cannon
Mary

Ally Sheedy
1st Girl
Andrea Pope
Michelle, the Cheerleader
Richard Milholland
Dr. Norman
Jonathan Estrin
Dr. Shuster
Lang Yun
Nurse Prine

Pat Corley
Store Manager

Enid Kent
1st Nurse