Perfect Body
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| Written by | Melissa Gould |
| Directed by | Douglas Barr |
| Starring | Amy Jo Johnson Brett Cullen Cathy Rigby Wendie Malick Ray Baker |
| Music by | Pray for Rain |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United States |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
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| Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Judith A. Polone Harry Winer |
| ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Judy Cairo |
| Cinematography | Karl Herrmann |
| EditorTemplate:Pluralize from text | Mark Conte |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | The Polone-Winer Company NBC Studios |
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| Network | NBC |
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Perfect Body is a 1997 American drama television film about a young gymnast who develops an eating disorder. It originally aired on NBC on September 8, 1997.[1] It has since aired on Lifetime and ABC Family and been released on DVD. The film stars former Power Rangers and Felicity actress Amy Jo Johnson and gymnast/actress Cathy Rigby who suffered from an eating disorder in her youth.
Plot
Andie Bradley (Johnson) is a gymnast whose ambition is to participate in the Olympics. When offered the opportunity to train with one of the leading coaches in the U.S., she gratefully accepts. This requires her to move to Seattle from Portland. When she attends her first session, she is scrutinized by the coach about her weight and feels the pressure to lose the pounds. At first she adopts a sensible diet, but it soon leads to excessive calorie restriction. When she hangs out with a fellow team member, Leslie (Tara Boger), Leslie tells her that there are ways around it and encourages her to self-induce vomiting, saying, "You can eat what you want, and not gain a pound." Andie continues restricting her calories, but when she cannot help eating due to extreme hunger, she resorts to purging methods.
Her mom notices changes in her weight, while her boyfriend and best friend also notice changes in her attitude. Andie eventually tells her best friend that she sees the changes and can't stop her behavior. She faints twice, both during competitions, and goes to the hospital, after fainting the second time, where a doctor talks to her parents about her health problems. Her parents decide that she and her mother will move back home. Refusing to leave her training, Andie runs away to the gym, where she sees a new girl being given the same lecture about her weight that was given to her. She decides that she is not ready to go back to training. After moving back to Portland, Andie joins a support group where she is encouraged to eat as part of her therapy. At the end of the movie, she is seen walking into the school gymnasium and getting back on the balance beam.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Perfect Body". Chicago Tribune. 8 September 1997. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
