The Best Little Girl in the World
★ 5.6 · 1981 · 100m · TV Movie · Drama
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.
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