Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Charles Durning
as Frank Powell
Eva Marie Saint
as Joanne Powell
Jennifer Jason Leigh
as Casey Powell
Melanie Mayron
as Carol Link
Lisa Pelikan
as Gail Powell
Viveca Lindfors
as Madame Seurat
David Spielberg
as Dr. Garrett
Jason Miller
as Clay Orlovsky
Richard Venture
as Dr. Neil Holzer
Lenora May
as Julie
Laurence Lau
as Mark
Michael Dudikoff
as Chuck
