Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
Edgar
Florence - Edgar's Wife
Florence's Brother
Florence's Mother
Boss
Old Boyfriend
Doctor
Trainer
01 Feb 1980
Dominick DiNapoli is a man who loves food and is overweight as a result. After an obese cousin dies due to health problems, Dominick's sister Antoinette sets out to help him lose weight. Although he has a hard time trying to slim down, Dominick finds inspiration when he meets and falls for shop owner Lydia. Can he get up the courage to ask her out, or will he go back to the comfort of overeating?
19 Jul 2024
Wendy’s hopes for friendship at the picnic crumble when her homemade cake ends in a recipe for disaster.
03 Oct 1990
The cloak and dagger antics of a girl alone at home on a diet - weighing raisins, fiddling the scales, changing the definition of 'fruit' and blaming it all on her boyfriend...
23 May 1945
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
01 Jan 1978
The story Jim and Vic, two men who go on separate fitness journeys when they realize they're overweight and at risk for heart disease.
07 Jun 2010
Nola Devlin is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her coworkers. Though, when she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous advice columnist Belinda Apple. Nola’s friends, tired of being overworked and overweight, band together to create the Cinderella Pact, vowing to lose pounds by following the advice of Belinda Apple. When her secret identity is threatened, Nola is forced to take her own alter ego’s advice. But, as the group of friends drops dress sizes, their real issues are exposed, and better-than-expected life changes begin to blossom.
19 Sep 2009
Sasha and Billie just found a new apartment right next to their favorite coffee shops and thrift stores. Life couldn't be better until they discover a blood-thirsty werewolf living in the attic. Coping with the uninvited roommate challenges their vegan lifestyle and may turn these animal savers into animal slayers.
14 Oct 2015
The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.
15 Mar 2005
Paul and Paula are partners in their profession as comic artists and best friends in their private lives. They also have the same problem: being overweight! When Paul's school sweetheart Mariah suddenly turns up and is about to move to the city, Paul decides to lose weight. But he breaks his leg during his first attempt at fitness. And how do you burn a lot of calories despite breaking your leg? By popping! The results are impressive and gradually everyone around him falls for the sex diet. Eventually even Paula, who persuades her good old friend Paul to have sex with her. After all, they know each other inside out and don't want anything else from each other, or do they?
30 Jun 2017
Extreme diets have become fashionable and health enthusiasts have imposed veganism to relatives and friends. Their “victims” die after having rejected some vegetables and then reawake as meat-seeker-zombies. This is the story of one of them.
08 Feb 1994
A West Village dominatrix puts her 400 lb love slave on an S & M Diet and the power of the hidden phallus is revealed. An artifact, a laugh, and an ode by NYC artist Margie Schnibbe.
14 May 2004
Eating, 2nd Edition: Introducing The RAVE Diet presents graphic evidence of how animal foods are not meant for human consumption, and how the suffering and death of the animals "takes revenge" on the humans who eat them by causing most of our chronic diseases, and how the switch to a all whole-food plant based diet can begin to reverse many of these diseases in as little as three weeks.
17 Jan 2004
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.
07 Jun 2016
A Cambridge geneticist dispels misconceptions about living with obesity and explores why the epidemic continues to expand across the UK and America.
11 Sep 2021
Jill is an escort. When she meets Alex who pays to watch her eat, her own desire becomes obsessional. EAT is a descent into the twisting paths of a transgressive and insatiable pleasure.
18 Sep 2014
Joe Cross took viewers on his journey from overweight and sick to healthy and fit via a 60-day juice fast in the award-winning Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. With Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2, he looks at keeping healthy habits long-term.
06 Oct 2000
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
01 Mar 2011
The stresses of daily life can lead to unhealthy habits including poor nutrition, lack of exercise and inadequate rest. Trudie Styler s Weight Loss Yoga helps you adopt a more balanced lifestyle to achieve your weight loss goals while creating a healthier body.
13 Mar 2020
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
05 May 2006
Five friends travel to a secluded island for a purifying week-long water fast. With no food and electricity, a long forgotten hate surfaces.