Kate's Secret

Kate's Secret
Opening title
Genre	Drama
Distributed by	NBC
Directed by	Arthur Allan Seidelman
Produced by	Stephanie Austin
Written by	Denise DeGarmo Susan Seeger
Starring	Meredith Baxter Birney Ben Masters Georgann Johnson Tracy Nelson Shari Belafonte Leslie Bevis Edward Asner Mackenzie Phillips
Music by	J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography	Dennis Dalzell
Editing by	Millie Moore
Production company	Andrea Baynes Productions Columbia Pictures Television
Country	United States
Language	English
Original channel	NBC
Release date	USA: November 17, 1986 Finland: March 12, 1987
Running time	100 min.

Kate's Secret is a 1986 television film starring Meredith Baxter Birney, Ben Masters, Tracy Nelson, and Edward Asner. The film's plot, about a seemingly "perfect" suburban housewife and mother who is secretly suffering from bulimia nervosa, was an attempt to realistically portray the eating disorder.

Synopsis

To those on the outside, Kate Stark (Meredith Baxter Birney) leads an idyllic life; a successful husband (Ben Masters), an adoring young daughter (Summer Phoenix), and a beautiful home. But beneath the surface, her life is less than ideal; her husband is preoccupied with his career, a domineering mother (Georgann Johnson), and a dark secret that not even her closest friends know: Kate is bulimic. As the pressures in her life begin to mount, Kate obsessively diets and exercises, and habitually binges and purges while adroitly hiding her eating disorder from those closest to her. When Kate's bulimia finally leads to a frightening accident that makes it clear to everyone that her illness is dangerous not only to herself, but also to those around her, she is committed to rehabilitation, where she will have to learn to face the inner turmoil at the root of her disorder before it is too late.

Cast

References

External links

• Kate's Secret at the Internet Movie Database
• Kate's Secret at AllMovie
• Kate's Secret at MyLifetime.com