Anyone catch the gymnastics movie "Perfect Body" on ABC Family channel today? It's old - you can tell from the routines and the vault not being a vault board - but like NBC puts it, new to you if you haven't watched it yet! It's about a girl swtiching gyms to go elite with a crazy coach that keeps telling them to lose weight and turns some of the gymnasts into bulemics and anorexics.

No-too bad I missed it. Have you seen/read Little Girls in Pretty Boxes?The book is about both gymnasts and figure skaters, but the movie take on it is pure gymnastics.

The "Perfect Body" movie was interesting. They'll prob. replay it again, don't worry! Haven't watched the "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" movie yet; the book did get a lot of attention. I think it's pretty much the same story line kind of as "Perfect Body", and they were both released in 1997, weird huh! "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes": [quote]PLOT DESCRIPTION The often too-intense world of competitive gymnastics is the focus of this made-for-television movie. Courtney Peldon stars as Katie Bryant, an aspiring young gymnast who is willing do whatever it takes to make it to the top of her sport -- including suffering verbal abuse from her demanding coach, competing while injured, and intense dieting. Swoosie Kurtz stars as her mother Allison, who at first agrees to the rigorous training, but later realizes the dangers of her daughter's environment. Mom Allison removes Katie from her strict coaching program and helps her find training with a more positive approach. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide[/quote] http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=154919 "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" movie got a 5.6/10 rating from 109 votes online: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119551/ . "Perfect Body" movie rating: 5.1/10 273 votes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119881/ It's too bad the girls - and their parents - let their coaches abuse them like that - there's no respect.

***********SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED "PERFECT BODY" MOVIE YET!!!!!!!!!!!!*************************************** i like the part where Andie goes back to the gym thinking that's where she wants to be, and then right when she gets there she gets to watch the coach doing the same kind of abuse he did to her to another new gymnast he's signed on, and realizes this isn't the place for her. the coach didn't learn anything at all. he just keeps telling normal weight girls they're so fat and talk to them like they're worth nothing. totally agree with you jts: [quote]It's too bad the girls - and their parents - let their coaches abuse them like that - there's no respect.[/quote] in Nastia Liukin's video (check the videos section here to watch it if you haven't already) you could tell that she was saying that she eats breakfast each day on purpose, same with her dad the coach, that she doesn't skip eating.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt ...also quoted on "Princess Diaries" movie (great movie!)

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so its like make it or break it the old version?!!?!!?