The Best Little Girl in the World

Name: The Best Little Girl in the World
Director: Sam O'Steen
Genre: TV Movie, Drama
Released: 1981-05-11
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 5.625
Cast: Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Mayron, Lisa Pelikan

“A drama of anorexia nervosa. A movie that just might save your child's life.”

1981

1h 40m

TV Movie Drama

Director: Sam O'Steen

Writer: David Moessinger

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Overview

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.