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Jan 13, 2003 · Hunger Point: Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. With Barbara Hershey, Christina Hendricks, Susan May Pratt, John Getz. A family is pushed to its limits when one of the daughters' lives is blighted by an eating disorder.
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Her first novel, Hunger Point, was published by ReganBooks in 1997, and became the basis for an original Lifetime movie, starring Barbara Hershey and Christina Hendricks of Mad Men, which first aired in 2003. Hunger Point has been translated into a number of foreign languages, including French, Spanish, Hebrew, among others.
By turns wickedly funny and heartbreakingly bittersweet, HUNGER POINT chronicles Frannie’s triumph over her own self-destructive tendencies, and offers a powerful exploration of the complex relationships that bind together a contemporary American family.
Hunger Point is the story of a girl who checks herself into rehab for anorexia and how she came to be that way. As a child, her mother would encourage her two daughters to be as thin as possible. The story focuses more on the girl's older sister, who is between jobs and living with her parents during a very stressful time.
A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences.
One daughter rebels to have a life as a nurse, but feels guilty. Then her perfect-considered sister, a workaholic law student, has to be interned for an eating disorder. After mother resists therapy, demanding her release home, a fatal incident occurs and the parents' marriage is wrecked.
Brief Synopsis. Based on the book of the same name by Jillian Medoff. When Frannie's sister commits suicide after a long battle with anorexia, she is forced to examine her life which tests the already fragile family.
Hunger Point. 2003 · 1 hr 32 min. PG-13. Drama. A mother’s perfectionism devastates her daughters’ lives, as they sink into private hells of anorexia and self-loathing, as they battle to survive. Subtitles: English. Starring: Barbara Hershey Christina Hendricks Susan May Pratt John Getz Alec McClure. Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver.
Hunger Point. A family is pushed to its limits when one of the daughters' lives is blighted by an eating disorder. IMDb 5.4 1 h 31 min 2003. 13+.
