Back home

Starving in Suburbia

66 votes

Producing House

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2014-04-26

Runtime: 84 mins

Director: Tara Miele

Writer: Tara Miele

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, TV Movie

Original title: Starving in Suburbia

Production Companies: Indy Entertainment, Lifetime, MarVista Entertainment

Production Countries: United States of America

Recommendations

B for Boy
5

B for Boy

2013-10-12

B for Boy is a contemporary drama set in Nigeria, about one woman's desperate need for a male child,

Mary Anning
0

Mary Anning

2018-11-16

A woman hunts for fossils and makes a big discovery. But she doesn't get credit again.

Big World
3.8

Big World

2024-12-27

Liu Chunhe, suffering from cerebral palsy, bravely breaks through the shackles of body and mind to r

Low Visibility
0

Low Visibility

1984-09-11

"Low Visibility" finds a man wandering alone on a snowy mountain roadside, waving his arms and shout

Alexandria
3

Alexandria

2001-11-16

Nina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, disco

Liberty Stands Still
2.7

Liberty Stands Still

2002-01-18

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Libert

Mermaid
0

Mermaid

A 10-year-old boy yearning to become a mermaid meets a struggling drag queen consumed by grief. Thei

Earth Mama
3

Earth Mama

2023-07-07

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she f

Eternamente Pagu
3.1

Eternamente Pagu

1987-05-12

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian polit

Michael
2.8

Michael

1996-12-25

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a w

Underage
2.7

Underage

2013-03-15

The story of Helena, a recently graduated attorney who works as a public defender of children and ad

Rending
3.4

Rending

2001-11-30

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Brothers
3.4

Brothers

2004-08-27

A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in 

Things We Lost in the Fire
3.3

Things We Lost in the Fire

2007-09-26

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As

The Fox - Dark Trail
2.5

The Fox - Dark Trail

2015-12-17

Mid-fifties Anne Marie Fuchs lives modestly and withdrawn in Düsseldorf. When a murder happens, it b

The Dreamed Path
3

The Dreamed Path

2017-04-27

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are

From the Land of the Moon
3.3

From the Land of the Moon

2016-10-19

In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured

The Beans of Egypt, Maine
2.5

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

1994-11-23

The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot

Lilly
2.5

Lilly

2025-05-09

Based on the inspiring true story of Lilly Ledbetter, an ordinary Alabama tire factory supervisor wh

Rosamunde Pilcher: Jahrestag
2.8

Rosamunde Pilcher: Jahrestag

2025-01-12

Pam Holloway believes in love and a stable marriage. Her parents Laureen and Elliot are her great ro