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Starring
Shelly Guillory, Brittany Robinson

Director
Lauren Greenfield

Year
2006

Genre
Documentary

Synopsis
This Australian premiere, Emmy-nominated documentary is focused on four young women struggling with anorexia.

We follow these women to places most have never ventured - one-on-one and group therapy sessions, emotionally wrought mealtimes, early morning weigh-ins, heated arguments with staff and tense encounters with family members. We come to learn that each woman's fight for recovery is unique: Brittany: a 15 year-old who strives to be thin to gain acceptance among her peers, and whose mother has also suffered with the disease; Shelly: 25, who has been battling anorexia for six years, and who enters Renfrew with a feeding tube surgically implanted in her stomach; Alisa: 30, a divorced mother of two who struggled for decades with a relentless compulsion to purge and Polly: 29, who has spent years in and out of treatment and often challenges the Centre's policies and procedures.

Unflinching and incisive, this is an emotional journey through the world of eating disorders and, ultimately, provides a greater understanding of their complexity.

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