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Disfigured (2008)

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Reviews Counted:6

Fresh:5

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This independent drama tells the story of Lydia, a buoyant overweight woman, and Darcy, a recovering anorexic. When the two become friends it sheds light on the unexpected similarities between the... This independent drama tells the story of Lydia, a buoyant overweight woman, and Darcy, a recovering anorexic. When the two become friends it sheds light on the unexpected similarities between the two women, and the often complicated way we view our bodies. Features nudity. [More]

Starring: Deidra Edwards, Staci Lawrence, Ryan C. Benson, Elizabeth Sampson

Starring: Deidra Edwards, Staci Lawrence, Ryan C. Benson, Elizabeth Sampson, Sonya Eddy, Patrick Gorman

Director: Glenn Gers

Director: Glenn Gers
Composer: Kayla Schma

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Jul 29, 2008

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  • Lydia is a fat, graceful woman struggling to maintain her identity in fashionable
  • Venice Beach, CA. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a
  • movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against fat people), she still struggles
  • with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world.
  • Darcy, a recovering-anorexic Venice real estate agent, is struggling with the
  • same issues from a very different perspective. Her attempt to join the Fat
  • Acceptance Group (since she sees herself as fat) is quickly rejected - but it
  • introduces her to Lydia.
  • Though they seem at first to be each other's worst nightmare, Lydia and
  • Darcy begin to confide in each other. Meeting warily in the social minefields
  • of hunger and satisfaction, anger and femininity, sexuality and fashion, trust and
  • fear...they become friends.
  • But then Lydia, stirred by a growing romance with a sweet overweight guy
  • named Bob, asks Darcy for an unusual favor: she wants anorexia lessons.
  • When Darcy lets Lydia inside her secret inner world, it forces both women to
  • confront deeply-buried feelings about their bodies - and nothing will ever be
  • the same again, for either one.
  • Source: Cinema Libre Studio
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    Well worth seeing even if the execution is a little choppy, because the issues explored here really attain some excellent depth.

    Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
    11/09/08
    Karina Montgomery
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    A novel buddy vehicle contrasting the unique perspectives of a two segments of society ordinarily either marginalized in movies or treated almost as if they didn't exist at all.

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    07/21/08
    Kam Williams
    Kam Williams
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    Out of control desires like sex, food and emotional neediness intertwine with their opposites of starvation, abstinence, denial, shame and self-hatred throughout this raw and revealing, intensely intimate drama.

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    07/20/08
    Prairie Miller
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    The film can’t do the arithmetic right to get to a solution on how to tell a straight story without a bunch of forced tangents and gnarly knots that take too much work to sift through.

    Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
    07/18/08
    Matthew Nestel
    Matthew Nestel
    Boxoffice Magazine

    A struggling anorexic and her physical opposite form an unlikely friendship in disFIGURED, a funny, awkward and often uncomfortable drama.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    07/18/08
    Jeannette Catsoulis
    Jeannette Catsoulis
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    A delightful and honest story, full of poignant and humorous moments, it speaks to the fat and the skinny person in all of us.

    Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
    03/03/08
    Steve Rhodes
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