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.

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.

Witnessing her sister’s painful fate shocks Frannie into a bitter realization—she must finally face her tortured feelings of inadequacy and fearlessly challenge her mother to accept responsibility for her own role in her daughters’ deep-rooted problems. So begins an emotional odyssey of rebirth and renewal, of embattled love, of a mother’s accountability for her family, and a daughter’s long-awaited fight for self-control to see herself clearly and honestly for the first time in her life.

By turns heartbreakingly bittersweet and wickedly funny, Hunger Point is ultimately a life-affirming and exuberant mediation on family, forgiveness, and the hard-earned rewards of personal change.