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Thin |  | Director: Lauren Greenfield
Actors: Shelly Guillory, Alisa Williams, Polly Williams
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 21948
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 026359372926
UPC: 026359372926
EAN: 0026359372926
ASIN: B000HEVZA8
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 21, 2006
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Product Description
Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 09/23/2008 Rating: R
Amazon.com
A compelling film that delves into the lives of young women with eating disorders, the HBO documentary Thin offers sobering insight into why anyone would sacrifice her health for the pursuit of unrealistic body perfection. Set in a Florida clinic that specializes in treating patients with bulimia (binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting) and anorexia (consuming barely enough to survive), the film introduces viewers to four women. Shelly, 25, is a psychiatric nurse who weighs 86 pounds. Talking to her therapist, she says, "I used to have a personality." Alisa, 30, is a mother of two small children who joined the Air Force to lose weight. Though she seems to be the perfect patient, it's obvious her eating disorder has taken control of her life. She just wants to be thin, she says, and "if it takes dying to get there, so be it." Polly, 29, checked herself in for treatment after a suicide attempt. The cause? She had allowed herself to eat two pieces of pizza. Brittany, 15, grew up watching her mother--who also has an eating disorder--behave compulsively around food. Once weighing 185 pounds, Brittany dropped to almost half her weight in a year, causing severe liver damage. When her insurance runs out, the teenager has to leave the clinic. The last group meeting she attends with her fellow patients is heartbreaking. As she sobs, it's obvious she'd rather die of starvation than risk being heavy again. Even when a 28-year-old patient tries to convince her that she is young enough to change her life around, Brittany cries that death is a better option than being fat. Filmed in a matter-of-fact manner by director Lauren Greenfield, Thin offers hope, but no happily-ever-after ending for these women. It will be a struggle for them to eat--and not purge--once they leave the clinic. And the documentary leaves viewers hoping the best for these tortured women, but realizing that some of them might not make it. --Jae-Ha Kim
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It took a while before my order came, but it was in the same condition as described.
You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win. - Natalie Imbruglia June 22, 2010
stoic (Mobile AL)
Thin is a documentary focusing on a group of women who are undergoing treatment for eating disorders at a Florida clinic. Viewers get an overview of the steps in treating eating disorders and of the difficult choices the clinic's staff must make in attempting to treat patients. The success rates for patients are depressingly low.
The filmmakers introduce several women who are undergoing treatment. The women often break rules, lie, and have conflicts with staff. These scenes - while interesting - can make Thin seem like a soap opera or a reality show.
Viewers also learn about how central insurance is to treatment. Many times, a woman makes progress in treatment, but has to be discharged when her insurance will no longer pay.
The end of the film updates what happened to each of these women in the months after filming. Viewers should look up the women on the web for further updates - there are some interesting stories.
In the end, Thin is an good film - but it is a bit depressing.
worth watching February 10, 2010
jon grife (maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a good documentary. it mostly shows life inside an inpatient treatment program for girls with eating disorders. the story seems incomplete and leaves you wanting more. i was struck by how lost and immature these girls seem to be. the documentary focuses mostly on the efforts made to keep these girls alive. it would be nice to have follow-up with the girls to see what types of enlightenment or insight helped save their lives.
 Less about EDs than the problems of treatment November 24, 2009
Necmiye Eren (New York)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This documentary focuses more on the ridiculously bureaucratic and rule-driven "treatment" facilities that are available to those suffering from eating disorders than the eating disorders themselves. I think this was a deliberate choice of focus on the part of the director: she shows that what these women are attempting to get from their disorders is control, and yet, in a bitterly ironic twist, the only treatment options that have been devised by allegedly brilliant "experts" are ones which infantilize and control them (i.e. setting up room searches, dining room rules, childish counseling, no tattooing allowed, no smoking, petty talking behind patients' backs on the part of staff, no clique formations etc.) These treatments do NOT work, as is evinced by the lousy success rate--so are they harming the clients more than they are helping them? Is this the best psychology can come up with? I think the questions raised by the film should trouble the sleep of those treating eating disorders. Clearly, they as yet still do not understand the disorder. In the case of the facility featured in "Thin," they are approaching the clients as if starvation/purging were a rational CHOICE rather than a complex disease that affects cognition itself.
A good documentary, but infuriating. Don't expect many answers about anorexia etc. to be answered, however.
Love it!! October 11, 2009
L. Markgraf (Colorado, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This has got to be one the best documentary about eating disorders that I have found. It really gives insight into how these kinds of programs work and how the clients deal day to day even in recovery.
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