Film

Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection

20231h 39mDocumentary

Director: Randy Martin
Year: 2023

She'd only just begun.

Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.

Top cast

Karen Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Richard Carpenter

Self (archive footage)

Olivia Newton-John

Self (archive footage)

Cynthia Gibb

Self

Suzanne Somers

Self

Kristin Chenoweth

Self

Belinda Carlisle

Self

Carol Burnett

Self

Cubby O'Brien

Self

Carnie Wilson

Self

Directed by

Randy Martin

Written by

Randy Schmidt

Produced by

Randy Schmidt, Brad Osborne