Hunger Point
2003
Action / Drama

Hunger Point
2003
Action / Drama
Plot summary
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.
Director
Top cast
Tech specs
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A rare TV film with subtlety
Embarrassing and Pathatic
This movie is sad. Not only are the characters insufferable, they also fit every stereotype of a woman with an eating disorder. All of the characters are one-dimensional and annoying. The film is filled with clichés about how an ignorant person would perceive a girl with an eating disorder with having taken more then one look at the situation.
The character with an eating disorder is displayed as whiny, selfish, childish, and bratty. Her sister is a total stereotype: A stupid, impulsive, childish woman who is nothing without a man to guide her. The mother is the standard cookie-cutter "bad mother", vain and selfish.
I don't know if this movie is meant to "break ground" or something, but it was insulting. I am a therapist, who works with strong, intelligent women with eating disorders and i view this as an insult and a step back. None of the women i work with are like this at all, and it is clear that the lifetime channel had pre-conceived notions about how these women were.