Filmed in Vancouver by Vin Di Bona Prods. and ABC Television Network. Executive producers, Vin Di Bona, Lloyd Weintraub; producer, Harry R. Sherman; director, Paul Schneider; writers, Carol Evan McKeand, Nigel McKeand; Based on a real-life story and starring former anorexia sufferer Tracey Gold (“Growing Pains”), this tale of a teenager pulled back from self-willed starvation is presented vividly enough to send any viewer out to raid the fridge.
Eighteen-year-old Nancy Walsh (Gold) is the youngest child in a seemingly well-adjusted family. Popular at school, she has no apparent reason to forswear food, to pull elaborate subterfuges to hide her affliction, or to resist medical help after her parents (Jill Clayburgh, William Devane) belatedly recognize her illness.
The Title Screens Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. View Mobile Site XMenReboot MCU Future GOT Quiz MCU Future GOT Quiz. Aaw i just watched the movie, i think it was really good and i loved it how the actress played Nancy. I was wondering if she lost a lot of weight for the role or how they did it, because she looked really skinny in some of the scenes, and since it is an older movie, i don't think they used any effects or altered her appearance somehow.
Story tiptoes around the nature of her cure and dissolves in pious cliches just about the moment the newly saved Nancy takes her first tentative nibble on a bagel, but its message is compelling: Eat something.
Filmed in comfortable upper-middle-class surroundings in Vancouver, under Paul Schneider’s laggardly pacing, the film tends to mope at times, as if there weren’t quite enough story for a two-hour slot. Given her own medical history, Gold’s identification with the anorexic Nancy cannot be doubted, and the views of her skin-and-bones physique are realistic. Her face, however, remains agreeably filled out. There’s just so much you can ask from a cast, however talented.
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Real-life recovering anorexic Tracey Gold stars in this emotional drama, which is more than your average disease-of-the-week fare. Based on the true story of college-student Nancy Walsh, this above-average TV-movie focuses on the family dynamic issues often found at the core of the eating disorder known as anorexia. Viewers watch Nancy as she slowly transforms from healthy and outgoing college freshman into a secretive and withdrawn young woman, starving herself in response to pressure. Her frantic parents (Jill Clayburgh, William Devane) try everything possible to save her from the slow suicide and ultimately go to the courts to legally force their daughter into getting help.