Hunger Point
- IMDb link: 0335163
- IMDb rating: 5.5 (697 votes)
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Joan Micklin Silver
- Cast: Christina Hendricks, Barbara Hershey, John Getz, Susan May Pratt and others
- Release date: 13 Jan 2003
- Release year: 2003
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: fatphobia, 2003, eating disorder, doctor, f rated, medical examination, dinner, embarrassment, visiting a grave, cemetery
Plot:
The Hunter family is dominated by endless, extreme dieting, due to mother's frustration over a fat-making upbringing by her parents. 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. The surviving sister is consumed by guilty feelings, like the mother, and breaks up her relationship with a young doctor at the clinic, yet lets her grandfather set up dates with his buddy's grandson Charlie, a lawyer.