When a gypsy caravan arrives in Fairview, the conservative judge Phillips forces the gypsies to leave town. Meanwhile the gluttony lawyer Billy Halleck, who has difficulties to reduce his weight, successfully defends the mobster Ritchie Ginelli in court. During the night, he celebrates with his partner and wives at a dinner party. While driving back home, his wife Heidi pleasures Billy during which he accidentally runs over the old gypsy Suzanne Lempke, the daughter of the patriarch Tadzu Lempke. During the trial, Billy omits the reason of the accident; the chief of police Duncan Hopley perjuries; and the bigoted judge declares Billy not-guilty. The next day, Billy, Duncan and Phillips are cursed by Tadzu, who puts a hex on each one of them. Billy gets thinner and thinner and while seeking out Tadzu to ask him to remove the spell, he suspects that his wife is having an affair with his doctor and friend Mike Houston. Billy feels that his life is running out and asks for help to Ritchie to convince Tadzu using his method to call off the jinx.

Thinner (1996)
  • Rating: (10,349 votes)
  • Taglines:Let The Curse Fit The Crime. » More terror. Less filling. »
  • Runtime:92 minutes
  • Director: Tom Holland
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Billy Halleck
    Robert John Burke
    Richie Ginelli
    Joe Mantegna
    Heidi Halleck
    Lucinda Jenney
    Tadzu Lempke
    Michael Constantine
    Gina Lempke
    Kari Wuhrer
    Linda Halleck (as Joie Lenz)
    Bethany Joy Lenz
    Prosecutor
    Time Winters
    Judge Phillips
    Howard Erskine
    Bailiff
    Terrence Garmey
    Court Clerk
    Randy Jurgensen
  • Genres:Horror, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Mitchell Galin
    producer  
    Andrew Golov
    executive producer  
    Randy Jurgensen
    associate producer  
    Stephen F. Kesten
    executive producer  
    A. Welch Lambeth
    associate producer  
    Richard P. Rubinstein
    producer  
  • Plots: A fat Lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner. Written by <Cane@Cris.COM>
Thinner
  • User's comment:Not the worst King adaption, but definitely not the best either by Grann-Bach (Grann-Bach@jubii.dk)

    From what I've heard, this is a fairly faithful adaption of the Stephen King story of the same name, but I've never read the book myself. The plot is decent, but somewhat ridiculous... and the pacing is awful. I was bored for most of the other half of this movie, despite it only being about 90 minutes long. The acting varies, but it's mostly bad... Kari Wuhrer displays a particularly obvious lack of talent, and Robert John Burke proves that he doesn't have the charisma or talent to carry a movie. Actually, Joe Mantegna pretty much steals the show, and every scene that doesn't involve him has you bored and wanting to see him again. The humor in the film is actually surprisingly good. There are some pretty good exchanges of dialog, and, as a nice variation from the typical King film-adaption, most of the laughs are intentional(though there are a few parts which still seem lame and make you laugh, as opposed to seeming scary and frighten you). The special effects vary, but for the most part, they are quite good. The films gore and violence may be a little over the top, and is definitely extreme, though there isn't terribly much of it in the film(but when there is, it's very graphic), but it didn't bother me as much as I had expected, from hearing it described by someone who has seen the film. Since I haven't really seen any other films by the director, Tom Holland, I can't say if fans of him will like this film. One thing that the fans of King will surely enjoy is that he himself has a role in this, and a pretty easily recognizable one, at that(not the typical somewhere-in-the-immediate-background cameo that writers/directors typically have). All in all, fairly enjoyable horror, but not something that you'll want to see many times. I recommend it to big fans of Stephen King, huge fans of the various actors, and people who just enjoy watching somewhat uneven films just for the heck of it. 5/10


  • Quotes: Billy Halleck: What are you trying to do to me? Heidi Halleck: What you wanted me to do in the back seat of your daddy's car. Prove my love to you. Henry Halliwell: This diet you're on, what is it? I've tried all the others, I might as well try this one.
  • Also known as: Thinner (Spain - imdb display title), Thinner (Sweden - imdb display title), Худеющий (Russia), A Maldição (Brazil - imdb display title), Adynamia (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Kirous (Finland - TV title), L'occhio del male (Italy - imdb display title), La peau sur les os (France - imdb display title), Maldição (Portugal - imdb display title), Maleficio (Argentina - imdb display title), Przeklety (Poland - imdb display title), Sorvadj el! (Hungary - imdb display title), Stephen King's Thinner ( - undefined, imdb display title), Stephen Kings Thinner - Der Fluch (Germany - imdb display title), Thinner, la maldición gitana (Mexico - imdb display title), Vainottu (Finland - video title),

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