The Best Little Girl in the World

The Best Little Girl in the World

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Anorexia

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  • Genre(s): TV Movie, Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Sam O'Steen
  • Cast(s): Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Melanie Mayron, Lisa Pelikan See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 40min
  • Music: Billy Goldenberg
  • Award(s): Primetime Emmy 1981 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: 180, Scoop
  • Story:
    Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school in which her bickering parents must put aside their differences to help her recover before her condition kills her.
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STORY

Story
Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school in which her bickering parents must put aside their differences to help her recover before her condition kills her.

AWARDS

Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award

Outstanding Film Editing for a Limited Series or a Special | 1981 | Michael S.

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Under medical supervision, Jennifer Jason Leigh wasted down to 87 pounds for her role.

The leading role originally went to Jodie Foster, but she withdrew because she was attending Yale.

Ally Sheedy's debut.

Popular Dialogues

"Clay: How do you feel about all this, Casey? Casey: I don't know... I don't want to know. I don't want it and I hate it. Clay: What do you hate? Casey: My family. I hate them... but I want them... and I hate wanting them. Clay: Why do you hate it? Casey: I hate wanting. Wanting something means that you'll never get it. Joanne: Haven't we always given you what you wanted? You have everything you've asked for. Casey: Tell me one damn thing that I ever asked for? What... what did I ever ask for? I asked for nothing... and that's what I got. Gail got attention for screwin' up... and I got nothing for being good. Nothing from you... and nothing from Daddy. Joanne: That is not true. I love you. I wanted you to have everything. Casey: Everything that you *wanted* me to have! You don't let me choose my own clothes. You never liked my friends so I don't have any friends... and I *can't* take this pressure. Frank: Don't talk to your mother like that. Casey: Daddy, for *once* in my life I am telling you how I feel! I... I just want you to love me... no matter what I do."

"Carol: They got some new drugs they want to try on me to see if they can cure my bulmarexia. Casey: What's that? Carol: What's bulmarexia? I got a lot to teach you. Bulmaxeria is binging, then getting rid of it. You see, it's kind of like eating through the refrigerator, then hitting the pizza joints, burger places, doughnut shops, wherever you can eat, you eat. I can eat three weeks non-stop. I could win awards. Casey: If you eat like that, then how come, I mean, how come you don't weigh 500 pounds? Carol: Vomiting. Casey: I'd rather not eat. Carol: So would I, but I can't help it. Sometimes I heave ten times a day. Doctors tell me its dangerous, but, um, it's better than being fat."