The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron is a great read. It gives more insight into the psychology, or what she’s actually thinking and feeling. The second book, “Kessa” touches upon bulimia.
"Songs To Aging Children Come" by Joni Mitchell, and the other song toward the end of the clip, "I Think I Understand" is also by Mitchell, and both songs can be found on CD on her album "Clouds".
I just found a People Magazine article from October 1982 in which Jennifer Jason Leigh's sister said that their father, Vic Morrow, managed to see this film before his tragic death on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie", and that he was very proud of Jennifer's performance. I was wondering if he saw this movie and it's nice to know that he did. Sad that they didn't have the chance to reconcile, Jennifer was hoping to be close to her dad again and work with him.
Yeah, you're right about the song. I was thinking the same thing... a perfect mix of innocence & eerieness. Kinda foreshadows the tone of the whole movie, you know?
Thank you for this...I saw this when I was a kid and read the book (which was excellent). I always wanted to see it again. I thought it was a good movie for television back in the day.
Here's the thing: yes, almost all the ED films start with a girl jogging, but considering this is the first movie about EDs, I'd say this started the trend lol
I once heard about the book on an anorexia site. I was surprised they made a movie. Glad to have found your account! Work is sooo boring without listening to something.
i love the book read it when i was 12 and i can read it over and over and never get tired of it. i used to have this book but lost it, in the process of moving. I'm going to order it because i need to have this book again
aw, thanks for uploading...i've wanted to see this for a long time. the karen carpenter story is here too? haven't seen that since when it actually came out.
i am pretty sure that i remember hearing that its similar because tracy gold said that she learned alot from the book--it was supposed to be an imitaion in the opening seen.
OMG I remember reading this book. I had no idea there was a movie on it. I will be watching this in parts, but starting tomorrow- I'm too tired & sleepy today.
I picked this book up for summer reading- it's the best book I've ever read. I'm about half way through after 2 days.. that's coming from a person who hates reading with a passion. It makes me cry so much since I can relate.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is always excellent. Like her late father Vic Morrow (whose talent she clearly inherited) she is Method actor. She dieted down to about 80lbs for this role, quite dangerous and difficult. Thanks for posting this movie!
@Muirmaiden I mean you can't really blame Gail. She's a whiny attention hog because she got no attention as a kid. She wouldn't be so desperate for something she can have. Her mother is the overly permissive but always absent parent. Her father is an insensitive bastard. Whatever Casey's going through is due to an accumulation of circumstances, not just Gail's faults.
This is a bit irrelevant to the movie- but I've got to say to bebright11 that omg yes- wasted is such a triggering book for people who have suffered from/are suffering from EDs. It's a bit of a shame because Marya Hornbacher had an amazing story to tell and wrote it so well, its just triggering for some. By the way, I think its amazing that so much was known about EDs even in the 80s when this was made- although I think Carol calls her illness "bulimarexia". Still, great movie.
She was supposed to play Casey, but was at Yale University at the time of filming. It was about that time that John Hinckely Jr shot President Reagan so that Jodie Foster would fall in love with him. But I digress.
In the trivia section for this movie on the Internet Movie Database this info is listed (to correct my earlier post, she dieted down to 86lbs under medical supervision for the role), so she would be believable and in a way "live the part" (as method actors have the tendency to do).
Thank you that is so true. I'm half Native American and Half Mexican. I've had anorexia and bulimia since 7th grade. I'm a junior now. I can't tell my family because apparently it's a "white girl" problem.
@AlexzondraCT , LOL, I guess the purpose of Gail is to be loud and obnoxious, to get all the attention to the point where Casey feels the need to starve herself. Casey is the "good kid" and therefore taken for granted by her parents, and pushed into the background. Hence her cry for help with the anorexia and in search of an impossible quest for perfection. Sad, but there you have it.
I think there should be more with a boys perspective on anorexia I think it would be really interesting to see if it was different for a boy than a girl :)
Not much different. The personality traits and style of life predisposing men to anorexia are the same as for girls: perfectionism, obsessiveness, sports, etc.
What's the song which starts off the film? It's excellent...but considering this was made back in the seventies (I think) the song won't be too easy to get, but it sounds great. Thanks everybody. ~Soph
@@8tsunami7 I'm 52 now. Had it when I was 17-18. Yes, sometimes the urges to starve myself come and go. It's a life long battle. Hope you are also doing better.
yeahh it does take LONGER in fact WAY longer than like 5 sec to purge...i hate that when films do that it makes u wonder if they shuld even make vidoes about anorexia bulimia...cause it sems like they dont know EVERTHING
That song is haunting. What's the name of it? I know it's by Joni Mitchell (or, by a replacement singer for the movie soundtrack), and it's on her 'Clouds' album, but what's the song title? Btw, I think the father in this was poorly casted. Ditto for the sister. They're pretty crap actors, in fairness. Jennifer Jason Leigh excels as always, though.
@TheNightsxlight you do not know that I have had friends who are bulimic and have one who is in treatment for it now. They were never spoilt so stop generalising.
@chocolatekiss608 Not so weird for the times in fresh out of the 70's working class America. Parents had grown up during the Depression and come of age during WWII and the Korean War. Many were a bit on the tough, stoic side. This movie was a first in showing how it could affect girls...and movies such as these can actually be motivators in a way for those who struggle with eating disorders.
@xxcharmed1xx okay, you´re speaking your experience, but I think it´s a little daring to present it as a general truth... people can and do have various reasons for developing an ED, how can you tell what´s going on in their heads? how can you tell they´re ONLY thinking of themselves? they might be trying to make themselves "worth" their family´s love, coping with some inner trauma or something - yes, their ways are a bit twisted, but how does this make the girls or guys selfish?
@TarAncalyme actually YES i have had an eating disorder, my lowest was 95 lbs! Then i realized what i was putting myself and other people thru, i was being selfish. So go ahead n get pissed off, i'm speaking the truth and experience. When ppl suffer from something like that, their only thinking of themselves.
@TheThinspirationlove Considering I got 76 likes I cant be the only one who wonders this. I know anorexics run. It just shows a lack of creativity in the writers and directors of this era. Just because bulimics throw up doesnt mean they start all the movies about it with people throwing up.
@ErikaCn100 But she is a little girl. She may be a junior in high school, but inside she's still a little girl. She doesn't get attention from her parents, she feels bad because of that, and she needs a lot of support. Just like a little girl. I think it's one of the better titles out there.
Amy Jo Johnson (Andie Bradley) i realized is from the 1996 film Susie Q... she plays susie lol srry i luv her as a actress ...... although at the beginning of the movie i though she might have been Pheobe Tonkin but as it gets into the movie its amy lol
@redododiculous did you know that tracey gold's (the actress in for the love of nancy) Eating disorder started because she watched this movie? its in a lot of her bio's..now girls are starting ed's because of "for the love of nancy"
@ Whispers5000 - Yeah, it says in the opening credits that this movie is "based upon the novel by Steven Levonkron". Steven Levonkron was the therapist who treated the singer Karen Carpenter (unsuccessfully) during her last couple of years of life.
Wooooww.. Those clothes are NOT flattering on our lead character. And that is NOT how it happened in the book... But I just love how the lead made the squad and suddenly all attention is shifted to the preggo-eggo, irresponsible, weird-faced sister.
Somehting is not right with your mother. She probably feels pretty bad about herslef and is taking it out on you. She sounds like she is not worth much as a mother. You feel good about being you!! To hell with her!!
The actress herself was medically supervised by doctors, to lose weight gradually through the movie down to 84 pounds, it wasn't a stunt double or anything :) Interesting isn't it?
@TheSkatingGirlDream don't do it I went thru it for 2 years so hard to stop.. Just exercise that's what im doing now im so happy I stopped.. I only did it because an ex boyfriend would always call me fat.
Yeah, I was verbally/mentally/emotionally and physically abused for 18 years. See? Spoiled my ass. That's the same as if I called you selfish for being a pig. See, hurts, doesn't it?
the red head got some nerve to get pregnant and act like she isn't going to take responsibility for her actions. she got some nerve. she couldn't be like that in my moms house.
tell me about it, they got the father all wrong, Susanna isn't supposed to be there, and what do the writers of the movie got against the name "Franchesca"?
seriously the beginning reminded me of for the love of nancy lol
Nearly all ED films begin with a girl jogging
LOL, so true;-)
For the Love of Nancy 😂
The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron is a great read. It gives more insight into the psychology, or what she’s actually thinking and feeling. The second book, “Kessa” touches upon bulimia.
"Songs To Aging Children Come" by Joni Mitchell, and the other song toward the end of the clip, "I Think I Understand" is also by Mitchell, and both songs can be found on CD on her album "Clouds".
AND IT STARTS WITH JOGGING!
*Shocker*
I just found a People Magazine article from October 1982 in which Jennifer Jason Leigh's sister said that their father, Vic Morrow, managed to see this film before his tragic death on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie", and that he was very proud of Jennifer's performance. I was wondering if he saw this movie and it's nice to know that he did. Sad that they didn't have the chance to reconcile, Jennifer was hoping to be close to her dad again and work with him.
Jennifer is adorable!
Ally Sheedy is also in the scene of the cheerleading tryouts. Ally is the one of the panel of judges the 3rd from the right.
Love this movie ever after a decade of watching it 😊 thank you for posting this ❤
Thanks for uploading this movie!! I've been looking everywhere for it!!!!
"You gotta get down, you're the best around! You gotta get down, you're the best in town!"
OMG now I've got this stuck in my head.
Now try out for cheerleading 😁
ikr 11 years alter
I love the way the sister says "that about sums it up"
Yeah, you're right about the song. I was thinking the same thing... a perfect mix of innocence & eerieness. Kinda foreshadows the tone of the whole movie, you know?
Most realistic portryal of A.N we will probably ever see.
Believe it or not this movie actually helped me to get better.
To the Bone on Netflix is excellent too. Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves.
Thanks so much for posting this!!
Weird how the movie is nothing like the book.
Right! I LOVE the book and was so interested in the movie, but it's really not nearly as good.
Thank you for this...I saw this when I was a kid and read the book (which was excellent). I always wanted to see it again. I thought it was a good movie for television back in the day.
Songs the Aging Children by Joni Mitchell from the album Clouds - one of my favourite albums of all time.
Here's the thing: yes, almost all the ED films start with a girl jogging, but considering this is the first movie about EDs, I'd say this started the trend lol
The made us watch this in high school when it came out in 81...it gave me nightmares
OMG!! Thank you so much for posting this movie. I haven't watched it in years :)
I once heard about the book on an anorexia site. I was surprised they made a movie. Glad to have found your account! Work is sooo boring without listening to something.
i love the book read it when i was 12 and i can read it over and over and never get tired of it. i used to have this book but lost it, in the process of moving. I'm going to order it because i need to have this book again
aw, thanks for uploading...i've wanted to see this for a long time. the karen carpenter story is here too? haven't seen that since when it actually came out.
i am pretty sure that i remember hearing that its similar because tracy gold said that she learned alot from the book--it was supposed to be an imitaion in the opening seen.
I love the earie-ness of this movie, Thanks for posting
is that the girl from fast times? it sounds like her but the quality is so low i can't tell
Yes, it is the girl from Fast Times (Jennifer Jason Leigh) . :)
+Julia Barrett She's an amazing actress. Finally got nominated for an Oscar for Hateful Eight.
"I can't believe you're a high school junior!" Exposition much?
When that girl starts singing and dancing, and that dude in the background does too...I busted out laughing. Oh gosh, this is cheesy :)
Whooah! Didn't know Helen Hunt was in this! Awesome! Love her.
lol! I love the dad,I think he is hilarious. Reminds me of Red from 'That 70's show' :-)
LMAO! "This is the 80's daddy"... Thats funny
OMG I remember reading this book. I had no idea there was a movie on it. I will be watching this in parts, but starting tomorrow- I'm too tired & sleepy today.
I picked this book up for summer reading- it's the best book I've ever read. I'm about half way through after 2 days.. that's coming from a person who hates reading with a passion. It makes me cry so much since I can relate.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is always excellent. Like her late father Vic Morrow (whose talent she clearly inherited) she is Method actor. She dieted down to about 80lbs for this role, quite dangerous and difficult. Thanks for posting this movie!
Love Jennifer Jason Leigh, she is such a good actress
i like alot of her older movies!!
Thank you so much! Is Ally Sheedy in this too?
Yup! At the cafeteria and cheerleading tryouts scenes
@Muirmaiden I mean you can't really blame Gail. She's a whiny attention hog because she got no attention as a kid. She wouldn't be so desperate for something she can have. Her mother is the overly permissive but always absent parent. Her father is an insensitive bastard. Whatever Casey's going through is due to an accumulation of circumstances, not just Gail's faults.
This is a bit irrelevant to the movie- but I've got to say to bebright11 that omg yes- wasted is such a triggering book for people who have suffered from/are suffering from EDs. It's a bit of a shame because Marya Hornbacher had an amazing story to tell and wrote it so well, its just triggering for some. By the way, I think its amazing that so much was known about EDs even in the 80s when this was made- although I think Carol calls her illness "bulimarexia". Still, great movie.
I love this movie thank you I’ve tried so hard to find it
She was supposed to play Casey, but was at Yale University at the time of filming. It was about that time that John Hinckely Jr shot President Reagan so that Jodie Foster would fall in love with him. But I digress.
In the trivia section for this movie on the Internet Movie Database this info is listed (to correct my earlier post, she dieted down to 86lbs under medical supervision for the role), so she would be believable and in a way "live the part" (as method actors have the tendency to do).
Someone please answer this for me:
is this based on the book by stephen levenkron?
I think that's how the old folks sang back in the day....my grandma sounds like that when she sings, lol!
I just remember watching this movie when it originally aired. I also liked it and JJL was very good and how could not like EMSt.? A very good movie.
+notgrillo collector/ gamer She's finally been nominated for an Oscar for Hateful Eight.
Pancakes are so nausiatingly sweet.
the book so far is way more detailed...i love it, i am in the process of reading it.
I've been looking for this, thanks !
I have anorexia , and not because I was spoiled but because my grand used to call me fat and beat me if I didn't lose weight.
Juuuust a quick Helen Hunt.
these movies always start with a girl running
;) gotta love the eighties hair
haha "it is the 80's daddy" wow that sounds silly, now a days! haha
Thank you that is so true. I'm half Native American and Half Mexican. I've had anorexia and bulimia since 7th grade. I'm a junior now. I can't tell my family because apparently it's a "white girl" problem.
@AlexzondraCT , LOL, I guess the purpose of Gail is to be loud and obnoxious, to get all the attention to the point where Casey feels the need to starve herself. Casey is the "good kid" and therefore taken for granted by her parents, and pushed into the background. Hence her cry for help with the anorexia and in search of an impossible quest for perfection. Sad, but there you have it.
OMG!! Helen Hunt looks sooo young here!!!!!
anywho,the main girl kindda looks like Emma Watson!
Wow the beginning of this is so similar to the beginning in For The Love Of Nancy.
I read the book The Best Little Girl In The World by Steven Levenkron. I didn't know there was a movie made about it. Thanks for posting!
that girl was on The Waltons once
I remember thinking the book was very preachy when I read it, but I suppose that's the point... Interesting to see how this film will turn out..
they showed this movie in school in like 6th grade lol. good movie.
I watched this freshman year in high school for health...
any way to make the resolution a bit better? thanks for posting!!
this is nothing like the book.... For those who haven't read it it's amazing!
The book rocks.
She doesn't even have close to half the clothes in my closet.
omg look at her ginormous cheering pom poms!!!
i like her cheer
What is the song at the start of the movie?
I think there should be more with a boys perspective on anorexia I think it would be really interesting to see if it was different for a boy than a girl :)
Not much different. The personality traits and style of life predisposing men to anorexia are the same as for girls: perfectionism, obsessiveness, sports, etc.
@@8tsunami7 Thankyou :)
jennifer jason leigh is so beautiful and perfect...
yes its the girl from Fast Times!
What's the song which starts off the film? It's excellent...but considering this was made back in the seventies (I think) the song won't be too easy to get, but it sounds great. Thanks everybody.
~Soph
These movies make me eat and work out, so healthy as can be here!
okay wow this is absolutely nothing like the book.
I'm a male that had Anorexia Nervosa, and when the weight off, no one could have been more proud of himself.
I used to be a male anorexic, too. Hope you're doing better.
@@8tsunami7 I'm 52 now. Had it when I was 17-18. Yes, sometimes the urges to starve myself come and go. It's a life long battle. Hope you are also doing better.
yeahh it does take LONGER in fact WAY longer than like 5 sec to purge...i hate that when films do that it makes u wonder if they shuld even make vidoes about anorexia bulimia...cause it sems like they dont know EVERTHING
"Songs To Aging Children Come" by Joni Mitchell.
haha the whole burp part is exactly like my family! I always burp and my dad would get so pissed! haha
That song is haunting. What's the name of it? I know it's by Joni Mitchell (or, by a replacement singer for the movie soundtrack), and it's on her 'Clouds' album, but what's the song title?
Btw, I think the father in this was poorly casted. Ditto for the sister. They're pretty crap actors, in fairness. Jennifer Jason Leigh excels as always, though.
@TheNightsxlight you do not know that I have had friends who are bulimic and have one who is in treatment for it now. They were never spoilt so stop generalising.
@Heatherhb03 I was just going to say that! I just watched two other ED movies that both start out with running!
yeah, pixieanalove, she's like "cough, cough.." then viola! Done. Now that sends the wrong message, like 'it's soo easy'!
Thank oyu so much. I love Helen Hunt... Lol.
@chocolatekiss608 Not so weird for the times in fresh out of the 70's working class America. Parents had grown up during the Depression and come of age during WWII and the Korean War. Many were a bit on the tough, stoic side. This movie was a first in showing how it could affect girls...and movies such as these can actually be motivators in a way for those who struggle with eating disorders.
@xxcharmed1xx okay, you´re speaking your experience, but I think it´s a little daring to present it as a general truth... people can and do have various reasons for developing an ED, how can you tell what´s going on in their heads? how can you tell they´re ONLY thinking of themselves? they might be trying to make themselves "worth" their family´s love, coping with some inner trauma or something - yes, their ways are a bit twisted, but how does this make the girls or guys selfish?
@TarAncalyme actually YES i have had an eating disorder, my lowest was 95 lbs! Then i realized what i was putting myself and other people thru, i was being selfish. So go ahead n get pissed off, i'm speaking the truth and experience. When ppl suffer from something like that, their only thinking of themselves.
@TheThinspirationlove Considering I got 76 likes I cant be the only one who wonders this. I know anorexics run. It just shows a lack of creativity in the writers and directors of this era. Just because bulimics throw up doesnt mean they start all the movies about it with people throwing up.
my sister was anorexic and she was 75 pounds and 5'5
this movie is really accurate and i made her watch it and i believe it helped her get better
@ErikaCn100 But she is a little girl. She may be a junior in high school, but inside she's still a little girl. She doesn't get attention from her parents, she feels bad because of that, and she needs a lot of support. Just like a little girl.
I think it's one of the better titles out there.
Amy Jo Johnson (Andie Bradley) i realized is from the 1996 film Susie Q... she plays susie
lol
srry i luv her as a actress ......
although at the beginning of the movie i though she might have been Pheobe Tonkin but as it gets into the movie its amy
lol
@redododiculous did you know that tracey gold's (the actress in for the love of nancy) Eating disorder started because she watched this movie? its in a lot of her bio's..now girls are starting ed's because of "for the love of nancy"
@ Whispers5000 - Yeah, it says in the opening credits that this movie is "based upon the novel by Steven Levonkron". Steven Levonkron was the therapist who treated the singer Karen Carpenter (unsuccessfully) during her last couple of years of life.
Wooooww.. Those clothes are NOT flattering on our lead character. And that is NOT how it happened in the book... But I just love how the lead made the squad and suddenly all attention is shifted to the preggo-eggo, irresponsible, weird-faced sister.
Somehting is not right with your mother. She probably feels pretty bad about herslef and is taking it out on you. She sounds like she is not worth much as a mother. You feel good about being you!! To hell with her!!
The actress herself was medically supervised by doctors, to lose weight gradually through the movie down to 84 pounds, it wasn't a stunt double or anything :) Interesting isn't it?
@TheSkatingGirlDream don't do it I went thru it for 2 years so hard to stop.. Just exercise that's what im doing now im so happy I stopped.. I only did it because an ex boyfriend would always call me fat.
omg that mother >:( the girl made cheerleading squad and the mom didnt even crack a smile! WTF *SLAP*
Yeah, I was verbally/mentally/emotionally and physically abused for 18 years. See? Spoiled my ass. That's the same as if I called you selfish for being a pig. See, hurts, doesn't it?
the red head got some nerve to get pregnant and act like she isn't going to take responsibility for her actions. she got some nerve. she couldn't be like that in my moms house.
tell me about it, they got the father all wrong, Susanna isn't supposed to be there, and what do the writers of the movie got against the name "Franchesca"?