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The Best Little Girl in the World

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1981-05-11

Runtime: 100 mins

Director: Sam O'Steen

Writer: David Moessinger

Spoken language: English

Genres: TV Movie, Drama

Original title: The Best Little Girl in the World

Production Companies: Aaron Spelling Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

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