The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)

Directed by

Joseph Sargent

Genre

biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This TV movie tells the story of Karen Carpenter, a singer in the pop duo the Carpenters. It covers her rise to fame and her struggles with an eating disorder.

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What happens

The Karen Carpenter Story is an American made-for-television biographical film about singer Karen Carpenter and the brother-and-sister pop music duo of which she was a part, The Carpenters. The film aired on CBS on January 1, 1989. Directed by Joseph Sargent, it starred Cynthia Gibb as Karen Carpenter, and Mitchell Anderson as her brother, Richard Carpenter, who served as a producer for the film as well as of the musical score. After the movie aired, CBS featured a Read More About It segment with Richard Carpenter to recommend books associated with anorexia nervosa and bulimia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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