Bethany Joy Galeotti, Joe Mantegna, Kari Wuhrer
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. T...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 7, 1997
Stats: 582 reviews
When i saw the cover of the video jacket, i knew i was in for a cheesy but probably enjoyable flick. It is a watchable film, and follows the plot of the novel pretty well all told. The actors were adequate, but not noteworthy. Some people have commented on the fact that William H...( read more)
I think that Thinner really does work better as a story than as a film. Your imagination makes the Gypsy curse even more horrible when you read than how the film presents it. Stephen King's stories are usually hit or miss when it comes to a film or TV adaptation, but Thinner lies...( read more)
A film that is mostly a laugh riot. A fat lawyer is cursed by a Gypsy. Gypsy curses are more at home in Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes. The whole Gypsy curse thing is both insulting to actual Gypsy's, and hilarious to the reat of us. It doesn't help that the Gypsy's acting...( read more)
a little tiny bit diff then the book but none the less well done. Great cast and well told...
I thought this was quite alright. I mean, we should know that most King novels never translate well into film, maybe the wrong guys end up gettin the deal all the time. Anyhow, I loved the pie thing!
I found this pretty spooky, i'm not a big Stephen King fan really. I watch them with my fiance as he is really into Stephen King films.
Terrible horror film based on the King book which goes on far too long and enters stupid land pretty shortly after the premise creeps in. Stick with Drag Me to Hell which has a similar Gypsy story but with a lot more imagination and better ideas. Then again, this one does have th...( read more)
Stephen King wrote this as Richard Bachman originally,its not that bad a film tho,i have seen worse...much worse....
I don't care if this movie is good or not, but it drove me and a friend nuts not to know the title of it when some scenes were being shown at our school cafeteria and now I need to see it.
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