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Thin
List Price: $24.98
Amazon Price: $18.54
Average Customer Rating:  (29 reviews)
Editorial Review: The HBO Documentary film Thin takes us inside the walls of Renfrew Center, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women (ages 15 - 30) who have spent their lives starving themselves?often to the verge of death. The film deftly chronicles the pervasiveness of restrictive eating behaviors (most of the women profiled learned dysfunctional eating habits from their mothers while growing up), as well as the failure of our current health-insurance industry to address its clients' needs, while never shifting focus from the women themselves. Director Lauren Greenfield documents with astonishing depth the daily rituals, spontaneous friendships and startling swings between recovery and relapse that make up life at the center. The result is a powerful new insight into one of our society's most insidious open secrets.
Customer Reviews:
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Good, 2008-06-20
Very good movie, but I should have just Netflix-ed it, it's not something that you will watch over and over.
0 of 2 found this review helpful:
 A great "How-to" for women with eating disorders, 2008-06-16
This documentary is very informational, and could help some people become more aware of how hard it is to live with an eating disorder and/or how hard it is to recover. Unfortunately, this shows many of the women's behaviors. Having once been a fairly innocent young woman without an eating disorder, I learned much of what I know now from films like this one.
Please don't buy this for your daughters with eating disorders, or who you think might be at risk for eating disorders.
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 brings me to tears everytime I see it, 2008-06-09
As a sufferer of an eating disorder for almost four years now, I would like to applaud Lauren Greenfield for making this extremely moving, heartbreaking documentary that shows the true, dark side of eating disorders. There are all sorts of documentaries and informational videos on eating disorders out there, but none of them compare to this one. I've found that a majority of them merely just give facts about eating disorders, and don't go so deep as to show all aspects of what its like to have one. This documentary brought me to tears, just from seeing the previews alone. And with other documentaries, I've found that many of them might be very triggering to people with this disease, while this one makes you realize why you want to stop with the destructive behaviors and makes you crave a healthy, happy life. Another good thing about this documentary is the fact that it not only shows extremely thin women, but women of average sizes and above. That just goes to show that people who have eating disorders aren't always necessarily emaciated, but are still in just as much danger.
The documentary goes inside of Renfrew, a Florida treatment facility, showing a variety of different women, but mainly focuses on four different women, struggling for recovery in hopes of living a normal life.
Shelly, polly, brittany, and alisa are the main focuses of this documentary, all with a variety of eating disorders, and all with a variety of different backgrounds that helped to contribute to their eating disorders.
This is a very powerful, heartwrenching, in-depth documentary that takes you into the minds of the women and their daily struggles in the clinic as they fight for recovery.
This film had me in tears from the moment it started, to the last minute when the end credits started rolling. I could see different aspects of myself in each of the women shown, but the fact that they participated and showed their daily struggles to the world gave me hope for my own recovery. This documentary paints an unpretty, totally true pictures of what its like to be in the devastating cycle of an eating disorder.
The ending is probably the most powerful part of the documentary, as it gives you information about what went on with the women after leaving Renfrew, showing that all of them relapsed, and were still struggling with their disease. That is the sad, unfortunate part of the disorder, that it doesn't just go away with the snap of your fingers. I also feel that was the most important part because it shows people just how serious the disease is.
I also wanted to extend my sorrow about Polly, who took her own life a few months back. Even though I didn't know her, I felt like I got to know her after having seen this documentary so many times, and she was truly an inspiration to me and a variety of other people in the eating disorder community. At the very least, as unfortunate as this is, I am happy to know that she is finally at peace and will no longer have to struggle. Despite her being gone, she still continues to inspire me each and everyday.
Final words- watch this documentary, whether or not you have an eating disorder because I feel more people need to be aware of the extremely misunderstood world of eating disorders. And be sure to also check out the THIN book, which gives you a glimpse into the womens lives after the cameras stopped rolling.
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 sad, 2008-04-17
A very good documentary. Quite sad when one of them died though (after the documentary was shown.)
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Informative, But Depressing, 2008-04-13
this dvd showed eating disorder patients breaking rules and relapsing and it ended with information about how most of the patients ended up relapsing and returning to treatment again. it seems like the renfrew center kinda sucks. i mean some of the patients did do well, but for the most part the dvd just showed hopelessness and i found it rather depressing. i definitely don't want to go to renfrew now for sure.
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