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Kate's Secret is a american film of genre Drama directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman released in USA on 17 november 1986 with Meredith Baxter

Kate's Secret (1986)

Kate's Secret
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Released in USA 17 november 1986
Length 1h40
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating64% 3.2372553.2372553.2372553.2372553.237255

Kate's Secret is a 1986 television film starring Meredith Baxter Birney, Ben Masters, Tracy Nelson, and Edward Asner. The film's plot, about a seemingly "perfect" suburban housewife and mother who is secretly suffering from bulimia nervosa, was an attempt to realistically portray the eating disorder.

Synopsis

To those on the outside, Kate Stark (Meredith Baxter Birney) leads an idyllic life; a successful husband (Ben Masters), an adoring young daughter (Summer Phoenix), and a beautiful home. But beneath the surface, her life is less than ideal; her husband is preoccupied with his career, a domineering mother (Georgann Johnson), and a dark secret that not even her closest friends know: Kate is bulimic. As the pressures in her life begin to mount, Kate obsessively diets and exercises, and habitually binges and purges while adroitly hiding her eating disorder from those closest to her. When Kate's bulimia finally leads to a frightening accident that makes it clear to everyone that her illness is dangerous not only to herself, but also to those around her, she is committed to rehabilitation, where she will have to learn to face the inner turmoil at the root of her disorder before it is too late.

Actors

Meredith Baxter

(Kate Stark)Ben Masters

(Jack Stark)Georgann Johnson

(Faith)Tracy Nelson

(Patch Reed)Shari Belafonte
And :
Leslie Bevis
Edward Asnere
Mackenzie Phillips
Summer Phoenix
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