Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

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Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

"She'd only just begun."

Release2023

Runtime1h 39m

Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.

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Budget

$100,000

Original Language

Release Date

February 10, 2023

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Production Companies

AMS Pictures

Cast

Karen Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Richard Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Olivia Newton-John

Self (archive footage)

Cynthia Gibb

Self

Suzanne Somers

Self

Kristin Chenoweth

Self

Belinda Carlisle

Self

Carol Burnett

Self

Cubby O'Brien

Self

Carnie Wilson

Self

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