All Entries Tagged With: "Overweight"
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Director(s): Writer(s): Cast(s): Clareece ‘Precious’ Jones, Mary, Ms. Rain, Mrs. Weiss, John, Cornrows, Mrs. Lichtenstein Plot: In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Foxes (1980)
Daring To Do It! Director(s): Adrian Lyne Writer(s): Gerald Ayres Cast(s): Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Lois Smith, Adam Faith, Sloan Roberts, Jill Barrie Bogart, Wayne Storm, Mary Margaret Lewis, Grant Wilson, Fredric Lehne Plot: A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert [...]
C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux (1998)
Director(s): Denise Filiatrault Writer(s): Denise Filiatrault, Michel Tremblay Cast(s): Ginette Reno, Pierrette Robitaille, Denise Dubois, Samuel Landry, Adèle Reinhardt, Mireille Thibault, Denis Bouchard, Martin Drainville, Danièle Lorain, Sonia Vachon, Sophie Lorain, Renée Claude, Donald Pilon, Yvan Benoît, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Jean-Marc LaFleche, Pauline Lapointe, Roger Larue, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Manon Miclette, Dominic Philie
Audition (1981)
Director(s): Louis Yansen Writer(s): Louis Yansen Cast(s): Peter Van Norden, Peggy Gormley Plot: A moving portrait of a shy, aspiring young opera singer who has an amazing voice but lacks the courage to sing at he frequent auditions which he forces himself to attend.
Lev fedt – dø ung (2004) (TV)
Director(s): Rikke Bekker, Klaus Birch Writer(s): Rikke Bekker, Klaus Birch Cast(s): Per Holten-Andersen, Vibeke Manniche, Leo Nielsen, Casper Nørregaard Plot: 1.3 million Danes (roughly 1/5 of the population) are overweight, and the number is rising. Documentary about the overweight Danes.
The Famine Within (1990)
Women’s bodies and the cultural ideal [Video] Director(s): Katherine Gilday Writer(s): Katherine Gilday Cast(s): Rebecca Jenkins Plot: Documents the contemporary obsession with an unrealistic body size and shape among North American women and the eating disorders it engenders.
The Sculptress (1996) (TV)
Director(s): Stuart Orme Writer(s): Reg Gadney, Minette Walters Cast(s): Pauline Quirke, Caroline Goodall, Christopher Fulford, James McCarthy, Lynda Rooke, Maureen Hibbert, Sophie Stanton, Michael Percival, Dermot Crowley, Jay Villiers, Timothy Bateson, Maureen O’Brien, Felicity Finch, Angela Belton, John Bowler Plot: Olive Martin (Quirke), a heavily overweight young woman is convicted of killing and butchering her [...]
Heavy Weights (1995)
They don’t run the fastest. They don’t jump the highest. But they sure are getting the last laugh. Heavyweights. They never met a hot dog they didn’t like … until now. Director(s): Steven Brill Writer(s): Judd Apatow, Steven Brill Cast(s): David Goldman, Joseph Wayne Miller, Cody Burger, Allen Covert, Tim Blake Nelson, Nancy Ringham, Seth [...]