A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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Title: Kate's Secret (TV Movie 1986)
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| Meredith Baxter | ... | Kate Stark (as Meredith Baxter Birney) | |
| Ben Masters | ... | Jack Stark | |
| Georgann Johnson | ... | Faith | |
| Tracy Nelson | ... | Patch Reed | |
| Shari Belafonte | ... | Gail (as Shari Belafonte-Harper) | |
| Leslie Bevis | ... | Monica Fields | |
| Edward Asner | ... | Dr. Resnick | |
| Mackenzie Phillips | ... | Deyna | |
| Summer Phoenix | ... | Becky Stark | |
| Sharon Spelman | ... | Liz Reed | |
| Mindy Seeger | ... | Markie | |
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Isabel Grandin | ... | Dot |
| Liz Torres | ... | Laura | |
| Gwynne Gilford | ... | Lorna | |
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Rosanna Huffman | ... | Megan |
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A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.
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17 November 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Meredith Baxter Birney moonlights from her sitcom gig as Elyse Keaton to play Kate, a suburban mother, housewife, and bulimic. This film was well-done on the topic. It shows how a normal person like Kate could eat and binge before self-induced vomiting out in the sink or toilets. I remember watching her going to the store and eating everything in sight and hiding it from her family only to vomit later and say something like something didn't agree with me. When she's caught, she's got to go to rehab and face her bulimia. She does give a good performance as Kate. Baxter was known to moonlight in television movies during her Family Ties years. She wasn't the only one. I always loved watching familiar faces pop up when I least expect it and knowing them from somewhere else. It's a shame that NBC doesn't make movies anymore or comedies.