A 2014 Lifetime movie that accidentally became a cult cautionary tale about internet rabbit holes.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Acting
Laura Slade Wiggins commits to the physicality completely.
Direction
Tara Miele's fragmented visual language for disordered thinking.
Director
Tara Miele
Laura Slade Wiggins
Hannah
Emma Dumont
Kayden
Callie Thorne
Joey
Izabella Miko
Teagan
Brendan Meyer
Leo
Marcus Giamatti
Michael
Sharon Lawrence
Dr. Klein
Paula Newsome
Ms. Christie
Olivia Jordan
Thin Chic Woman
Alexandra Begg
Dancer
Rachael Kathryn Bell
HipPopK
Franchesca Maia
Mia Love
Emily Jordan
Dancer
Krystal Ellsworth
Dancer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released at peak Tumblr 'thinspo' panic, the film inadvertently preserved a specific internet moment now lost to platform bans and algorithmic sanitization.
Izabella Miko based ButterflyAna's ethereal cruelty on actual pro-ana forum moderators she researched, making her less a villain than a disturbingly accurate archetype.
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