To Be Fat Like Me

Jan 8, 2007

1h 29m

★ 4.8

One thin teen. One fat suit. One shocking exposé.

Overview

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.

Genres

TV Movie

Comedy

Production Companies

Lifetime

CanWest Global Television Network

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Cast

Alyson

Kaley Cuoco

Madelyn

Caroline Rhea

Ramona

Melissa Halstrom

Jim

Michael Phenicie

Coach

Tim Perez

Kyle

Richard Harmon

Warren

Ben Cotton

Michael

Carlo Marks

Adam

Brandon Olds

Jamie

Rachel Cairns

Kendall

Adrienne Carter

George

Scott Little

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