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Movie poster: To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
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To Be Fat Like Me

2007 · 89 min TV Movie Comedy
4.8 / 10 · TMDB

Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that overweight people, like her mom and brother, seem to make excuses about how the world perceives them. So Aly decides to attend a rival high school as a heavily overweight person for the documentary, but not change her personality. Aly intends and hopes to prove that personality will outshine physical appearance. But when she's met with ridicule, harassment, and name-calling she begins to see things differently.

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📋 Film Details

Year 2007
Country Canada
Genre TV Movie, Comedy
Director Douglas Barr
Runtime 89 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.8/10 (22 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film constructs a social experiment, relying on the contrast between the protagonist's inner self and her artificial appearance to explore the mechanics of bullying and snap judgments.

What lingers after viewing is a predictable yet necessary lesson in empathy, delivered through the accessible format of a teen TV comedy. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Douglas Barr

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