L'amicizia tramite corrispondenza epistolare tra due persone molto diverse tra loro: Mary Dinkle una paffuta ragazzina timida e solitaria di otto anni, che vive nella periferia di Melbourne, e Max Horovitz, un ebreo newyorkese di 44 anni, gravemente obeso e affetto da sindrome di Asperger, una lieve forma di autismo.
Charlie è un uomo obeso di una cinquantina d'anni. Vive solo, passa le giornate seduto sul divano tenendo corsi di scrittura online, guardando la tv e mangiando compulsivamente. Nella sua vita ci sono Liz, amica infermiera che si prende cura del suo stato di salute sempre più precario, e la figlia Ellie, diciassettenne che ha abbandonato quando era bambina per seguire l'amore della sua vita, Adam, il cui successivo suicidio è alla causa della sua obesità. Sentendo la morte avvicinarsi Charlie decide di spendere il tempo che gli resta per riconciliarsi con Ellie, la quale non gli ha mai perdonato la sua scelta...
Lottando per trovare il suo posto all'Università di Oxford, lo studente Oliver Quick si trova coinvolto nel mondo dell'affascinante e aristocratico Felix Catton, che lo invita a Saltburn, l'eccentrica tenuta di famiglia, per un'estate indimenticabile.
Sara è una casalinga sola e depressa che sogna di partecipare ad uno show televisivo, il suo unico figlio, Harry, è un tossicodipendente che passa le sue giornate alla ricerca di droga insieme all'amico Tyrone. La ragazza di Harry, Maryon, è una borghese annoiata e problematica, anche lei tossicodipendente. Quattro vite ai margini, quattro storie destinate a risolversi tragicamente.
Hunter ha una vita all'apparenza perfetta. Incinta, è felice e in armonia nella vita di tutti i giorni. Dall'oggi al domani, però, comincia a inghiottire oggetti in maniera incontrollabile.
Dedicato alla tormentata voce di "Back To Black", Amy Winehouse, include immagini e filmati d'archivio inediti sull'intensa e carismatica artista, scomparsa nel 2011 a soli 27 anni per cause ancora non completamente accertate. Il film restituisce aspetti meno noti della vita della cantante, tutti raccontati attraverso le sue stesse parole e la sua musica.
Ellen ha vent’anni e sta combattendo – con l’aiuto di un medico poco convenzionale – contro l’anoressia. Grazie a questo incontro Ellen scoprirà come affrontare la sua dipendenza nel tentativo di accettarsi per ciò che è così da poter sconfiggere la malattia.
Wendy, la moglie che lavora in un negozio di abbigliamento infantile, è il sostegno della famiglia; Andy, il marito, si lbutta in un affare sballato "aprendo" un chiosco mobile; delle due figlie gemelle, la pacifica Natalie fa l'idraulico e la nervosa, anoressica, Nicole è vittima di ideologie e luoghi comuni. Un bel ritrattino...
Heidi, la star di "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" scopre che il suo amante Bletch, The Walrus, la tradisce. E con tutto il mondo in attesa dello spettacolo, i vari co-protagonisti devono fare i conti con la dipendenza dalla droga, l'estorsione, la rapina, la malattia, lo spaccio di droga e l'omicidio. Nel frattempo l'amore tra le due star è minacciato da Trevor il Topo, che desidera sfruttare la giovane stellina per usarla nel suo film porno.
Olivia e Matthew Gray sono due gemelli di diciotto anni nati in un mondo di privilegi e alte aspettative. Tra i due non c'è quasi alcun confine o limite tanto che anche i loro sogni appaiono connessi. Mentre si preparano a frequentare l'ultimo anno di scuola insieme, una tragedia inaspettata li divide, lasciando l'unico sopravvissuto a fare i conti con la vita senza l'altra metà.
Maledimiele è la storia di Sara, un’adolescente di quindici anni che si ammala di anoressia. Inizialmente nessuno sembra accorgersi di niente: sia i genitori che le amiche del cuore faticano a vedere l’evolversi della malattia. Sara riesce infatti a nascondere le sue abitudini: i digiuni forzati, le corse nel parco spinte fino allo sfinimento, le ore in palestra, i pranzi e le cene occultati sapientemente nel bidone dell’immondizia sotto casa. Allo stesso tempo Sara costruisce la sua “camera dei segreti”, dove stare tranquilla e agire indisturbata. Mentre dimagrisce Sara si sente sempre più forte, potente, invincibile. Tutto sembra procedere senza problemi fino a quando la ragazza sviene durante una gita scolastica.
Check in on the men and women featured in "My 600lb Life." Since the show, have they maintained their weight loss and continued working toward their goals? We get an update on where they are now and what's changed since the show.
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
Telling powerful stories in hourlong episodes, TLC follows medical journeys of morbidly obese people as they attempt to save their own lives. The featured individuals - each weighing more than 600 pounds confront lifelong emotional and physical struggles as they make the courageous decision to undergo high-risk gastric bypass surgery. In addition to drastically changing their appearances, they hope to reclaim their independence, mend relationships with friends and family, and renew their feelings of self-worth.
Explore how the late Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church and created the Christian weight loss program The Weigh Down Workshop, rose to fame as a diet guru and church leader.
Claire, a talented but emotionally troubled dancer, joins a company in New York City, and soon finds herself immersed in the tough and often cutthroat world of professional ballet. The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world.
Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a hospital patient. Espinosa and director-producer Pau Freixas had previously worked together on the film Herois. The show tells the story of a group of Catalan children and teenagers who meet as patients in the children's wing of a hospital. Themes include friendship, the will to live, and the desire to overcome adversity. The show was originally planned for four seasons, with the second one premiering on January 2013. In October 2011, it was announced that Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and Marta Kauffman had reached an agreement with TV3 for an American remake of Polseres Vermelles. The Spanish channel Antena 3 aired the first season, dubbed into Spanish as Pulseras rojas, in summer 2012. On 11 December 2012, TV3 announced 14 January 2013 as the premiere date for its second season. Antena 3 will premiere it dubbed later in 2013.
Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness everyday. Charlie , in a coma for several months, attending meanwhile helplessly bustle around him. He sees nothing , but he hears everything ...
An adorable love story of Park Ji Yong, a good-looking home shopping host, and Sohn Ana, a secluded girl who never leaves home and whose only joy of life is home shopping. (Source: OnDemandKorea)
After months in recovery for an eating disorder, 16-year-old Mia devises a bucket list of quintessential teen experiences to make up for lost time.
Supersize vs Superskinny is a British television programme on Channel 4 that features information about dieting and extreme eating lifestyles. One of the main show features is a weekly comparison between an overweight person, and an underweight person. The two are brought to a feeding clinic, and live together for five days, swapping diets all supervised by Dr Christian Jessen. The show also featured Anna Richardson in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd series, who examined new methods to lose weight by trying diets she finds on the Internet, some of which have shocking side effects. For example, Anna attempted Laser lipolysis, which went drastically wrong and resulted in severe bruising. Also, she discovered Diabulimia and spoke to Isabelle Caro, a French actress, renowned for her underweight figure and anorexia campaign. During the first series in 2008, one feature involved Gillian McKeith, who tried to find a way to "ban big bums" in the UK. She tested out different exercises to tone the buttocks of different groups of ladies, and made a leader board for the most effective.
Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt Tighteners. Its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, based upon his own struggle with eating disorders. In addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own. Starved was the lead-in of FX's hour-long "Other Side of Comedy" block with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the network's demographic. The series debuted on August 4, 2005 to poor critical reviews and was cancelled in October 2005, when FX picked Sunny over Starved for renewal.
Imo used to be sparkly, vivacious and outgoing. Recently however she’s becoming withdrawn, gaunt and obsessed with exercise. The reason? Her new “best friend” Anna.
Eight people with eating disorders struggle through a 42-day treatment program at Shades of Hope, an extremely difficult rehab center near Abilene, Texas. Maverick therapist Tennie McCarty uses unorthodox methods and a tough-love approach, asking her clients to confront the painful issues in their lives that have led them to use food as an escape.
Follow teens in treatment as they work to reclaim their lives in the face of eating disorders, suicidal depression and other mental health issues.
