中学時代にバスケットボール大会で優勝した幼なじみ５人組。映画俳優エージェントとして成功しているレニー、ガーデン家具の会社を経営するエリック、妻の収入で生活している専業主夫カート、いまだ独身のマーカス、30歳年上の女性と4度目の結婚をしたロブ。それなりに人生を歩み、今や立派な中年オヤジへと成長した彼らは、恩師であるバスケコーチの葬儀に参列するため30年ぶりに再会した。そしてコーチを忍んで湖に遺灰をまくため、バスケ優勝祝賀会をした思い出の別荘で週末を過ごすことになった。
『底抜け大学教授』のリメイク版、エディ・マーフィ主演による痛快ダイエット・コメディ。超肥満体の科学者クランプ教授が発明したやせ薬は効果テキメンだが、とんでもない副作用があり……。
全米各地を飛び回る長距離トラックの運転手ファイロ。酒と音楽が好きでケンカもめっぽう強い彼は、対決を挑んでくる荒くれ者たちをいつも軽くいなすように打ちのめしていた。そんなある日、プロのカントリー歌手を目指すリンと出会い、彼女に一目惚れする。しかし、リンは夢の実現に向けて旅立ってしまう。そして、ファイロは２人の相棒オーヴィルとオランウータンのクライドを連れて彼女を追った。その道中、賭けケンカで旅の資金を稼ぎ、やがてついにリンと再会を果たすファイロだが…。（allcinema）
A comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
A shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized attorney.
A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.
The Biggest Loser features obese people competing to win a cash prize by losing the highest percentage of weight relative to their initial weight.
Annie Easton is a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. She struggles to make it as a journalist while juggling bad boyfriends, sick parents, and a perfectionist boss, while the world around her deems her unsatisfactory due to her weight. Then, she realizes that she is just as good as anyone else and acts on it.
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt, Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010. The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards. The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction. The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
Fat Friends is an ITV drama created by Kay Mellor, broadcast from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005. It follows a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. It examines people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four cast members—Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith, and Alison Steadman—went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.
Telling powerful stories in hourlong episodes, TLC follows medical journeys of morbidly obese people as they attempt to save their own lives. The featured individuals - each weighing more than 600 pounds confront lifelong emotional and physical struggles as they make the courageous decision to undergo high-risk gastric bypass surgery. In addition to drastically changing their appearances, they hope to reclaim their independence, mend relationships with friends and family, and renew their feelings of self-worth.
The Slaton sisters averaging over a thousand pounds, have always depended on each other for support. Now in their 30s, Amy wants to have children, but cannot due to her weight, while her elder sister Tammy is near bedridden.
Seven teens from different backgrounds attend a weight loss camp as they embark on their individual journeys of self discovery.
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
Check in on the men and women featured in "My 600lb Life." Since the show, have they maintained their weight loss and continued working toward their goals? We get an update on where they are now and what's changed since the show.
Ronny Brede Aase enjoys his life with hamburgers and beer, but also dreams of a long and good life. So he, despite being fat, decides to make a TV show about health.
Bogan Pride is an Australian comedy television series which first screened on SBS TV in 2008. The six-part series created by and starring actress, Rebel Wilson, is directed by Peter Templeman and produced by Tony Ayres and Michael McMahon. The series centres around the life of a teenage bogan girl. The series was not renewed for a second season by SBS.
Young people work with their families so that they can all lose weight and improve their health and fitness.
Singer-actor Mélissa Bédard and comedian Christine Morency examine the many prejudices and preconceived ideas about overweight people in this sensitive and authentic exploration of fatphobia.
A two-part documentary following obese mothers at Leicester Royal Infirmary's high risk maternity unit.
Follow three couples who have gained weight during their relationship and want to make a change. Over the course of several months, they will attempt to break old habits and make positive lifestyle changes in an effort to revive their love and mutual attraction.
