Pullahiiri (1988)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 59M
Director : Lauri Törhönen
Synopsis
A teenager (Sari Puumalainen) starts to suffer from bulimia nervosa after her boyfriend tells her to loose a bit weight. The illness makes her neglect the school and her friends until she realises that she is not alone with her problems.
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
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Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
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A teenage girl, who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends, secretly binges and purges.
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An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.
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