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1981

The Best Little Girl in the World

Directed by Sam O'Steen
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.

Duration

1h 40m

Released

May 11, 1981

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Cast25

  • Charles Durning
  • Eva Marie Saint
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Melanie Mayron
  • Lisa Pelikan
  • Viveca Lindfors
  • David Spielberg
  • Jason Miller
  • Richard Venture

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