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The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)
Directed by Sam O'Steen
“A drama of anorexia nervosa. A movie that just might save your child's life.”
TV Movie, Drama · 1h 40m
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.
Cast
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
Crew
- Director
- Sam O'Steen
- Writer
- David Moessinger
- Novel
- Steven Levenkron
- Director of Photography
- Michael D. Margulies
- Original Music Composer
- Billy Goldenberg
- Editor
- Barbara Dies
- Producer
- Lynn Loring
Details
- Release date
- 1981-05-11
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Aaron Spelling Productions