Synopsis
Starving in Suburbia (2014) is a TV drama you can watch online on iFILM, starring Laura Slade Wiggins and Emma Dumont, directed by Tara Miele. Seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles across Thinspiration — an online community that frames anorexia not as an illness but as a lifestyle worth pursuing.
She grows obsessed with the site's anonymous founder, ButterflyAna, tracking every post and following every rule. By the time her family sees what is happening, the disorder has already taken hold. Hannah refuses to eat and refuses to believe she needs help. Her mother, father, and brother each try a different approach — and each runs into the same wall.
The film does not soften its subject or manufacture easy resolution. It works best as a portrait of how quickly a teenager can disappear into an online echo chamber. Stream Starving in Suburbia (2014) on iFILM.
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