The movie opens with Nancy at her senior prom, having such a great time, and she doesn't want it to end. She not excited about graduating or about going to college. The next morning, she has a dentist appointment to get her wisdom teeth pulled. Unfortunately, the wisdom teeth being pulled starts her with the excuse of not eating. It's only the beginning of the dangerous road she is about to take.
Nancy starts preparing to leave for college and she still has the fear of facing college and starting a whole new life away from home. After starting college, Nancy still feels sad and she doesn't fit in so she starts to become withdrawn. In her own way of coping, she starts to exercise alot more. She begins to obsess about her weight. She looks in the mirror and doesn't like what she sees. She also continues the habit of not eating which is taking more and more control of her day by day. Nancy's family and friends start noticing her weight loss. They start to worry. Her mother, Sally, who doesn't want to believe any of this nonsense of her daughter being anorexic, ignores the remarks from the others. She thinks Nancy is still the same girl she always was.
At the family Christmas party, Sally soon discovers what everyone is talking about. She goes up to Nancy's room and is shocked to see Nancy standing there in her dress all skin and bones. She looks like a skeleton. Nancy walks downstairs to say hello and everyone is shocked to see how much weight she lost. Her parents confront her and she doesn't know what answer to give to the reason why. She promises to eat and get better. Sally's brother advises her to put Nancy into a rehab to get better instead of letting her do it on her own.
Her parents, against Nancy's consent, send her to the rehab center name Parker Pavillion that help with eating disorders. Right from the start, Nancy refuses to eat, participate in group therapy, or talk to the doctor. She throws away food. She stores food in her bedroom walls. The doctor then sets her up with a IV to feed her but Nancy punches a hole in the tube. Not knowing what to do next, the doctor recommends a feeding tube. Nancy weighs herself and, surprised she had gain six pounds, wants to go home. She signs herself out and goes home. Her parents are upset but there was nothing the doctor could do. Her no eating continues at home. Soon, she gets sick from malnutrition and is hospitalized because of a kidney infection.
Her parents don't know what to do but then decide to speak with a lawyer to get a document stating that Nancy is incompetent and unable to make decisions on her own concerning her health issues. Nancy, deciding that her parents love her and just want to help her, makes the decision to let her parents have guardianship over her health issues. She is doing better now. It hasn't completely gone away but she is taking one day at a time. Now, she speaks to others with similiar problems and opens up about her own situation.
It's a warm movie that teaches you how serious anorexia can be. The actress that played Nancy Walsh was Tracey Gold, who actually was going through a similiar problem of her own facing this disease. She played a great role of someone who she can be familiar with and understand what needs to be done.
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