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2000s · United States · documentary

Thin (2006)

Directed by Lauren Greenfield · 1 h 42 min

Year
2006
Running time
1 h 42 min
Countries
United States
Languages
English

About the film

Thin is a 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO. It was filmed at The Renfrew Center of Florida in Coconut Creek, a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. The center has been described as "one of the nation's best-known inpatient eating disorders centres".

The film follows four women with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders in their struggle for recovery. The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in 2005, before premiering to the general public on November 14, 2006 on HBO.

From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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