I bought this for my birthday 2005 after watching parts of it on Lifetime channel. This movie inspired me to write a research paper about anorexia while I was in college. I also like watching Ray Baker & Brett Cullen. Amy Jo Johnson is an excellent actress that really shines in this movie

I've had a read of some of the reviews about how 'unrealistic' & 'cliche' this film is. Firstly Id like to say coming from someone who has suffered from Anorexia for 3 years, was hospitalised for 8 months, this by far is the most accurate portrayal of the development, suffering & isolation a person with ED goes through & the effects it has on the family & their body. I personally can relate completely with Andy's experience. Although I wasn't training to be a gymnasts, I was studying to be a doctor at university where my perfection streak went into overdrive and I started to diet, then ultimately starve myself. The convo her best friend has with her on the swings about how she "looks like hell", or the scene where she wakes up early to jog & then fill a bowl with cereal so that she looks like she has eaten breakfast, or her mum trying to get her to eat a skinless chicken breast, have practically all happened to me and Im sure to many other anorexics. If you want to see the emotional reality of anorexia without the gore & glamour this is the film to watch

Well to start off i must applaud Amy Jo Johnson for her portrayal of teenage gymnast Andie, considering her awful performances in other films i have seen her in (which i won't name due to how incredibly bad they are). If anything Perfect Body may be a tad cliché, but most movies tend to be and people forget it is a TV movie, most of our lives are cliché and we can relate to Andie's suffering as it is the human condition. Andie's parents plod along well through the film, whilst flat, 2 dimensional performances from Tara Boger and Ron Melendez do keep it from being 10/10 for me. But what this film does have is a happy ending with a character who is almost killed by gymnastics, but still goes back to it because it is her passion, not completely forget it which isn't realistic. The chemistry between Andie and her boyfriend is not always evident but they do have a sweet spark in some scenes. Thinking that Amy Jo Johnson was once the Pink Ranger and this film is solely centered around gymnastics and bulimia, it offers a genuine story that captures immense verve, courage and the devout strength of a girl wanting to achieve. This film isn't trying to be something it isn't,which some blockbuster turkeys like the god awful Pearl Harbour try to be.

I was forced to watch this film at school. Next time, she can give me a big fat F but I refuse to watch anything this horrible. Basiclly, its your typical "based on a true story" TV movie- the true parts are made as small as possible and the rest as filled with melodrama. The acting isn't bad, but the directing is- he basiclly directed his actors to be as exagerated as possible in their emotions. Also, the film is SO predictable- I am not exagerating when I say that after only watching the film for 5 miniutes, I correctly predicted every "plot twist" that was going to happen. And its just basiclly a soap opera- you feel nothing for the charecters because they are in NO WAY REAL, they look just like actors doing a TV movie, not like real people. The script is as cliche as you can get- they play it safe, take no chances, stick to the typical TV movie formula.