The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)

Name: The Best Little Girl in the World
Genre: TV Movie, Drama
Released: 1981-05-11
Duration: 100 min
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.

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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Released 1981-05-11 · 100 min · Drama

Directed by Sam O'Steen

Cast

Charles Durning as Frank Powell
Eva Marie Saint as Joanne Powell
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Casey Powell
Melanie Mayron as Carol Link
Lisa Pelikan as Gail Powell
Viveca Lindfors as Madame Seurat
David Spielberg as Dr. Garrett
Jason Miller as Clay Orlovsky
Richard Venture as Dr. Neil Holzer
Lenora May as Julie
Laurence Lau as Mark
Michael Dudikoff as Chuck
Stephanie Cannon as Mary
Ally Sheedy as 1st Girl
Andrea Pope as Michelle, the Cheerleader