A powerful story about anorexia starring a paper-thin Lily Collins drew tears and applause at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday.
“To the Bone” is TV veteran Marti Noxon’s directorial film debut, a semi-autobiographical story about a young woman finding a path out of a potentially fatal illness. Noxon is a respected veteran of shows from “Grey’s Anatomy” to the Lifetime series “UnREAL.”
At the premiere, Collins said she too had struggled with anorexia as a teenager, and felt an immediate connection to the project. Playing the role of Ellen, a 20-year-old woman resisting her family’s pleas to open up to treatment, was cathartic, she said.