26 Jul 2022
Petrichor
Marked by childhood trauma, three women from different generations living with an eating disorder try to get back to life.
Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection
She'd only just begun.
Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.
Top Billed Cast
Karen Carpenter Self (archive footage)
Richard Carpenter Self (archive footage)
Olivia Newton-John Self (archive footage)
Cynthia Gibb Self
Suzanne Somers Self
Kristin Chenoweth Self
Belinda Carlisle Self
Carol Burnett Self
Cubby O'Brien Self
Carnie Wilson Self
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