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Secret Sharing is a 2000 American television drama about the struggle of a teenage girl with bulimia and her influence on her parents and friends. Originally aired on the CBS television network in the United States, the film also aired on Lifetime Network cable television. In 2001, the film received a Peabody Award for "an impressive, moving, and straightforward portrait of a teenager in crisis."

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Plot

With all the outward appearances, teenager Beth Moss (Alison Lohman) has a good life. He is interesting, popular, and excels academically and in ballet. Beth, however, felt that she did not live up to expectations and was not in control of her life. Adapting to the divorce of his parents and trying to live up to their praise, Beth is afraid to grow up and at the same time struggle to fit in with adult friends. He turns into binging and cleaning as a means to gain control over at least one aspect of his life.

The first sign of any problem comes with a headache error during the ballet class. Beth begs her instructor (Irina Gasanova) not to tell her mother (Mare Winningham). In the later scene, Beth first conceals her severe symptoms (bleeding gums) from her friends, but then teaches a friend (Kady Cole) how to clean up by pushing the vomit.

While playing games with another friend, Sophia (Brighton Hertford), Beth cites her mother's complaints about the patient she sees in her child's psychological practice as the cause of her greatest fear of "unsuitable...... in some way." She tells her friend that he did not want to "like those people."

Throughout the film, Beth becomes adept at hiding her symptoms. After he collapsed in the hallway of his school, he called his stepmother (Mary Crosby) to pick her up from school so as not to let her mother know. At the urging of his father (Tim Matheson), he saw a doctor diagnosing him as anemia. When the doctor asks if he has eaten, he says that he usually eats properly, but has not been lately because he is sick. He then hid his injured knuckles. When Beth's mother heard these Russell signs later, Beth gave her as a cat scratch.

After Beth returns to school, his school counselor (Khadijah Karriem) confronts the girl with the observation that she may be bulimics. The school counselor was very sympathetic and tried to get Beth to discuss the matter. Beth is forced to tell her mother, but insists that she no longer has a problem. This triggers a major conflict between mother and daughter. Dr. Moss decides Beth should go to counseling. This conflict is aligned in the movie when Beth's grandmother (Diane Ladd) tries to cheer her up without really understanding the situation.

Another parallel was seen in one of Dr.'s patients. Moss, a little girl named Rachel (Camryn Grimes) who, like Beth, feels blackmailed by her father (Lawrence Monoson) and stepfamily. Beth hinted at her hatred for her stepmother, referring to her as a trophy wife. Beth begins counseling and, at first, challenges, but begins to open when her therapist (Roxana Brusso) explains her own history with anorexia.

Then, Beth was seen coming to overcome her disturbance. A friend tried to cheer her up by saying that she was "pretty skinny." Beth yells at the girl who says she does not vomit to lose weight. He said, "I do it because I'm screwed."

The conflict between Beth and her mother culminated when Beth came home to find her mother in her bathroom, cleaning out her medicine cabinet in an attempt to remove anything potentially useful to trigger vomiting. Beth ordered her mother out of the bathroom.

When her mother refused, Beth proceeded to vomit to the toilet in front of her mother's eyes. Beth cried, telling her mother that her hair was falling out and her heart was beating fast. He asked to be checked into an inpatient facility. The movie ends with Beth still at the hospital but tells her mother about the signs of improvement as the supervisory time after the meal becomes "down to two hours."

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Release

Secret Sharing was first aired on the American CBS network on May 10, 2000, and was released in Region 2 DVD in the UK and Europe, distributed by Odyssey Video in 2003 and by Infinity Media from 2006 to the present.

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Reception

While the main critical review is not available for films made for this television, it is generally well received by the audience. Rotten Tomatoes lists audience ratings by 54 percent and feeding disorders Disorder Times rated movies in five of five films, calling it "one of the most made movies on eating disorders," and said it was "not exaggerate for 'surprise value,' nor describe eating disorders in glamorous light... "Personal reviews on sites such as Internet Movie Database and Amazon UK also praised the film for a realistic and accurate portrayal of a very serious eating disorder.

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Cast

• Alison Lohman: Beth Moss
• Mare Winningham: Dr. Nina Moss
• Lawrence Monoson: Phil Paige
• Mary Crosby: Irene
• Diane Ladd: Ibu Nina
• Tim Matheson: John Moss
• Camryn Grimes: Rachel
• Brighton Hertford: Sophia
• Kady Cole: Melanie
• Julius Ritter: Edward
• Irina Gasanova: Ballet Master
• Roxana Brusso: Keri Gold
• Khadija Karriem: School Counselor

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References

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External links

• Sharing Secrets in AllMovie
• Sharing Secrets on IMDb
• Sharing Secrets at Rotten Tomatoes

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