To the Bone
A young anorexic woman encounters an eccentric doctor who challenges her to defy her disease and live life to the fullest.
18 March 1997, Alexandria, Kentucky, USA
17 November 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
18 March 1989, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
3 October 1975, Downey, California, USA
20 February 1967, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
2 September 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
4 June 1991, London, England, UK
22 May 1967, New York City, New York, USA
29 March 1999, Tucson, Arizona, USA
3 April 1984, Arlington, Texas, USA
21 June 1967, Macon, Georgia, USA
8 July 1967, New York City, New York, USA
20 August 1995, Galveston, Texas, USA
July 13, 2017
At the end of the film, precisely nothing useful or insightful is said about anorexia or anything else.
July 13, 2017
For young people suffering, the movie offers both hope and clarity; for more experienced viewers, it may come off a little too much like Girl, Interrupted through a Lifetime lens.
June 29, 2017
An admirable and empathetic work that does not romanticize anorexia or the young woman being ground into nothingness by the disease, as some have feared.
July 13, 2017
Her bones stick out like the blades of a prehistoric reptile. Her stomach - or, at least the area where her stomach should be - seems to have had air sucked out of it with a vacuum. When she moves, you almost expect a clanging noise.
July 13, 2017
This is a queasy Netflix film about anorexia whose good intentions are undermined by its aura of starvation chic.
July 13, 2017
Collins commits herself physically to the role while adeptly slinging Noxon's caustic one-liners, and Reeves, as Ellen's doctor, strikes the right note between genuine sympathy and a sobering sense of where she might be headed.
July 13, 2017
If there are few surprises along the way, there are equally few easy answers or miraculous breakthroughs.
July 13, 2017
Addiction creates a messy, tangled web of anguish, where the hurt is spread far and wide, and while there are several narrative points that are short-shifted, "To The Bone" works hard to do justice to that reality.
July 12, 2017
[A] personal, finely realized comedy-drama.
July 12, 2017
Somewhere in trying to externalize a character's problems through corny and ham-fisted subplots, it loses her altogether.
July 12, 2017
Delivers exceptional work from Collins, who's finally challenged as an actress, submitting to the part with startlingly gaunt physicality and sharp dramatic response.
July 13, 2017
Without judging or romanticizing, Noxon presents a heartfelt and heartbreaking portrait of a 20-year-old girl trying to cope with the challenges of growing up by obsessively restricting calories.
