The Best Little Girl in the World VHS Big Box Movie
Signed by Charles Durning
Cardboard case has heavy wear as shown.
Also featured, Jason Miller, from Scranton PA.
The Best Little Girl in the World is a 1981 television film directed by Sam O'Steen and executive produced by Aaron Spelling. The film is based upon the 1978 novel of the same name written by Steven Levenkron
A young girl's dangerous dance with dieting leads to near disaster in
this exceptional made-for-television drama. In one of the earliest
treatments of the subject, Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Casey Powell,
the quiet daughter of an overbearing mother and milquetoast father.
Feeling pressure to be the good girl of the family after her troublesome
older sister gets pregnant, Casey retreats into her secretive world of
self-starvation. When arguing fails to produce results, her parents
(Charles Durning and Eva Marie Saint) send her to a hospital where she
meets a spunky fellow patient (Melanie Mayron) and a caring therapist
(Jason Miller). Casey's road to recovery is not as simple as merely
eating though, and she and her family realize that together they must
confront the deeply-rooted familial issues that lay at the heart of
Casey's affliction. Jennifer Jason Leigh is utterly compelling in the
lead role.