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Title: Thinner
Year: 1996
Runtime: 93 minutes
Votes: 21809
Rating: 5.7/10
Language: English
Country: USA
All Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Plot Outline: An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight.
Tagline: More terror. Less filling.
Director: Tom Holland
Writing By: Stephen King,Michael McDowell,Tom Holland,
Produced By: Mitchell Galin,Andrew Golov,Randy Jurgensen,Stephen F. Kesten,A. Welch Lambeth,Richard P. Rubinstein,
Music: Daniel Licht
Plot:
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>
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.
- Written by
Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight.
- Written by
<crow_steve@hotmail.com>
Cast:
Robert John Burke as Billy Halleck
Lucinda Jenney as Heidi Halleck
Bethany Joy Lenz as Linda Halleck
Time Winters as Prosecutor
Howard Erskine as Judge Phillips
Joe Mantegna as Richie Ginelli
Terrence Garmey as Bailiff
Randy Jurgensen as Court Clerk
Jeff Ware as Max Duggenfield
Antonette Schwartzberg as Mama Ginelli |
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