Your Fat Friend

Name: Your Fat Friend
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: December 8, 2023
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Aubrey Gordon, Michael Hobbes

2023

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Release Date: December 8, 2023

Starring: Aubrey Gordon, Michael Hobbes

Summary: The rise of Aubrey Gordon, from anonymous blogger to best selling author. Her aim? A paradigm shift in the way that we view fatness. A film about fat, family, the complexities of change and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies

Director: Jeanie Finlay

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Runtime: 96 min

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Anna Smith

Feb 6, 2024

It would have been great to have seen even more myth-busting around weight and health in this doc (presumably that’s covered in her book ‘What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat’), but Gordon is a funny and frank subject: a tour of her vintage diet book collection is a treat. Read full review

Empire Sophie Butcher

Feb 13, 2024

A simple but effective study of a vital activist voice, this documentary is a powerful force for change. Read full review

Hannah Strong

Feb 9, 2024

It’s a realistic, sensitive but never cloying call for kindness and empathy – something that shouldn’t feel novel in this day and age, but sadly does – and encourages viewers to reconsider how they view fatness, and in turn, fat bodies. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Feb 11, 2024

It helps that Gordon is a dream of a subject: funny, frank and eminently likable, she challenges preconceptions and prejudices about fatness with wit and grace. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

Dec 12, 2023

This engaging, eye-opening documentary follows Gordon over six years, as a book deal forces her to give up her anonymity and she further explores her own relationships with food, her family and society at large. Read full review

IndieWire Christian Zilko

Dec 12, 2023

Your Fat Friend succeeds in offering a nuanced portrayal of a writer and the views that made her beloved. But it’s hard to shake the feeling that the film actively infantilizes the very demographic that it wants to elevate. Read full review

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