Disfigured (2008)

Two women who don't look at all alike find out they have an unfortunate amount in common in this independent comedy drama. Lydia (Deidra Edwards) is a woman in her early thirties who lives and works in Venice Beach, CA, a place where appearance counts for a lot. Lydia is more than a little overweight, and she's a member of a "Fat Acceptance Group," a support organization where plus-sized women gather to discuss their emotional issues and their desire for the world to understand them at face value. One day, a new face appears at the group's weekly meeting -- Darcy (Staci Lawrence), a strikingly slender woman who i...
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nforms the regulars that she's a recovering anorexic who wants to attend because despite her size, she still sees herself as fat. While the leader of the group rejects Darcy, Lydia strikes up a friendship with her, and as they get to know one another they come to understand their unique anxieties about their bodies. Lydia has begun a tentative romance with a stocky but likable man named Bob (Ryan C. Benson), who wants a woman who won't judge him for his girth, but when she learns he's planning to have gastric bypass surgery in a final bid to lose weight, she's afraid he'll leave her behind and makes an unusual request to Darcy -- lessons in how to become anorexic. Disfigured was the first directorial assignment for screenwriter Glenn Gers.
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Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against overweight people), she is still struggling with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world. Darcy, a recovering-anorexic real estate agent in her mid-20s, 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. Lydia is initially wary of Darcy's efforts to become friends, bu...
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t Darcy's hunger for emotional contact breaks through the wall of apparent differences and they begin an unexpected friendship. At the same time Lydia gets involved in a sexual relationship with Bob, an overweight man who joins her in walking for exercise early mornings at Venice beach. Stirred emotionally by this new romance and by her conflict with the Fat Acceptance Group, Lydia decides to ask her new friend for an unusual favor: she wants anorexia lessons. When Darcy lets Lydia inside her secret inner world, it forces both women to confront buried feelings about their bodies.
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Lydia is een zwaarlijvige verkoopster die de 30 nadert en werkt in een trendy huismeubelenzaak. Hoewel zij een lid is van de Fat Acceptance Group, een groep die de vooroordelen van dikke mensen bestrijdt, vecht zij nog steeds met complexe gevoelens over haar lichaam en haar plaats in deze wereld. Darcy, een van anorexie herstellende vastgoedmakelaar van midden twintig, worstelt met dezelfde kwesties, maar in een heel ander perspectief. Haar pogingen om aan te sluiten bij de Fat Acceptance Group (door haar anorexie ziet zij zichzelf als dik) wordt afgewezen, maar op deze wijze leert ze Lydia kennen. Lydia is eerst...
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nog een beetje afstandelijk om vriendinnen te worden, maar Darcy's honger naar emotioneel contact doorbreekt de muur van schijnbaar onoplosbare verschillen en beiden staan voor een hechte vriendschap.
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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.

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