The Best Little Girl in the World
TV Movie
Drama
A drama of anorexia nervosa. A movie that just might save your child's life.
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.
1981-05-11
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Cast
Charles Durning as Frank Powell
Eva Marie Saint as Joanne Powell
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Casey Powell
Melanie Mayron as Carol Link
Lisa Pelikan as Gail Powell
Viveca Lindfors as Madame Seurat
David Spielberg as Dr. Garrett
Jason Miller as Clay Orlovsky
Richard Venture as Dr. Neil Holzer
Lenora May as Julie
Laurence Lau as Mark
Michael Dudikoff as Chuck
Stephanie Cannon as Mary
Ally Sheedy as 1st Girl
Pat Corley as Store Manager
Enid Kent as 1st Nurse
Gwen Van Dam as O.R. Nurse
Marilyn Coleman as Emergency Room Nurse