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Release Date:
25 October 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
Let The Curse Fit The Crime. more
Plot:
A lawyer is cursed by a gypsy to lose weight...and lose weight...and lose weight... full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination
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(9 articles)
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A Macbre Weight-loss Film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert John Burke | ... | Billy Halleck | |
| Joe Mantegna | ... | Richie Ginelli | |
| Lucinda Jenney | ... | Heidi Halleck | |
| Michael Constantine | ... | Tadzu Lempke | |
| Kari Wuhrer | ... | Gina Lempke | |
| Bethany Joy Galeotti | ... | Linda Halleck (as Joie Lenz) | |
| Time Winters | ... | Prosecutor | |
| Howard Erskine | ... | Judge Phillips | |
| Terrence Garmey | ... | Bailiff | |
| Randy Jurgensen | ... | Court Clerk | |
| Jeff Ware | ... | Max Duggenfield | |
| Antonette Schwartzberg | ... | Mama Ginelli | |
| Terence Kava | ... | Gabe Lempke (as Terrence Kava) | |
| Adriana Delphine | ... | Gypsy Woman | |
| Ruth Miller | ... | Billy's Secretary |
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Stephen King's Thinner
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Rated R for horror violence and gore, language and sexuality.
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92 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Netherlands:16 (TV rating) |
Iceland:16 |
Germany:16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Italy:VM14 (video premiere) |
Portugal:M/16 (video premiere) |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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Cameo: [Stephen King]the author appears as Dr. Bangor. (Bangor, Maine is where King lives.)
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Halleck hits the gypsy in the car, she hits the windscreen and leaves no blood on it, but in the next shot there is blood all over it.
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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.
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Heidi Halleck: What you wanted me to do in the back seat of your daddy's car. Prove my love to you.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Sopranos: Walk Like a Man (#6.17)" (2007)
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What does the old gypsy say to Chief Hopley?more
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If you're a big fan of Stephen King and want to see a film that stays true to the book, then this one will please. Thinner is the story of an obese lawyer, Billy Halleck, who kills a gypsy woman with his car. When the local judge and sheriff cover up the accident and let Billy off the hook, a gypsy curse is put on all of them.
One of the big things about this film that gave it it's publicity (besides Stephen King's name) was in the costume work done on Billy Halleck's weight-loss transformation. I think, given how daunting a task this was, that a good job was done. I did notice they forgot to augment his fingers to compensate with his body mass.
"Thinner" is delivered with what might be described as (forgive me) a second or third-string acting class - actors who deliver good roles but aren't chart toppers or as well known (Joe Mantegna, Kari Wuhrer, etc.). King's story teeters a bit when Billy and the gypsies begin playing a game of tit for tat. And the ending, although poetic with its Edgar Allan Poe touch, comes off as "oh brother!" 5/10