Hunger Point
A mother’s obsession with perfection has devastating results on her two very different daughters in this raw and darkly comic adaptation of Jillian Medoff’s acclaimed novel.
Format
TV Movie
Genre
Drama, Mystery
Original Air Date
2002
Studio
Lifetime
Starring
- Barbara Hershey
- Christina Hendricks
- Susan May Pratt
- John Getz
- Alec McClure
For as long as Frannie Hunter (Christina Hendricks, E.R.) can remember, she has lived to compete with her impossibly thin and beautiful sister Shelly (Susan May Pratt, 10 Things I Hate About You). Their mother Marsha (Emmy and Golden Globe winner Barabra Hershey, Beaches), obsessed with the notion of physical perfection, taught them both at an early age the importance of being thin. For Frannie, it’s been an uphill battle of food-fixation, fluctuating weight, and hopeless self-loathing. For Shelly, a desperate need for her mother’s approval plunges her into the nightmarish depths of anorexia—with tragic results.
