When Friendship Kills
She'll be dead before she's thin enough.
Directed by James A. Contner
Produced by O'Hara-Horowitz Productions, Libra Pictures
A dark cautionary drama about teenage friendship and eating disorders that prioritizes emotional devastation and the tragic consequences of mutual enablement.
Teenager Lexi Archer moves to Chicago with her newly divorced mother and befriends a popular girl at her new school, Jennifer. After Lexi's volleyball coach suggests that she lose weight, Jennifer reveals she is bulimic and the two girls decide to help each other, leading to disastrous consequences.
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