Thin (film)

Thin
Release poster depicting Shelly, one of the documentary participants, with the tagline, "If it takes dying to get there, so be it."
Release Poster
Directed byLauren Greenfield
Produced by
Starring
  • Shelly Guillory
  • Brittany Robinson
  • Alisa Williams
  • Polly Williams
Edited byKate Amend
Music byMiriam Cutler
Distributed byHBO
Release date
  • November 14, 2006 (2006-11-14)
LanguageEnglish

Thin (often styled as THIN) is a 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO. It was filmed at The Renfrew Center of Florida in Coconut Creek, a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. The center has been described as "one of the nation's best-known inpatient eating disorders centres".[1] The film follows four women with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders in their struggle for recovery. The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in 2005,[2] before premiering to the general public on November 14, 2006 on HBO.[3]

  1. ^ Boodman, Sandra. "Battling Skewed Perceptions Documentary Explores Four Patients Who Are Dying to Be Thin And One Clinic's Efforts to Save Them". Washington Post.
  2. ^ Moore, Carrie A. (2010-02-21). "Too thin: 2 Utah women struggle together in their fight with anorexia". Deseret News. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  3. ^ THIN Synopsis