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51% Critic Match
To Be Fat Like Me
“One thin teen. One fat suit. One shocking exposé.”
5.1 / 10• 2007• 1h 29m•NR• English
TV MovieComedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Kaley Cuoco
Alyson
Lead
Caroline Rhea
Madelyn
MH
Melissa Halstrom
Ramona
Michael Phenicie
Jim
Tim Perez
Coach
Richard Harmon
Kyle
Ben Cotton
Warren
Carlo Marks
Michael
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Douglas Barr's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. To Be Fat Like Me is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
