Stephen King's Thinner

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Stephen King's Thinner

R

1996

1h 32m

Horror

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Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese lawyer who accidentally hits a Gypsy with his car after his wife distracts him. Given Halleck's influence in town and a general prejudice against Gypsies, he manages to brush the incident under the rug with some unethical legal help from his associates. However, the victim's father, Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine), places a curse on the heavyset man, and he starts to lose weight at an alarming rate, which is followed by other macabre events.

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Critics Consensus

A bland, weightless horror film that seems to want to mock itself as the proceedings drag on.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

02/08/2024

2/4

The anemic screenplay offers little in the way of engaging scenarios and satisfactory payoffs.

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Kevin Carr

Fat Guys at the Movies

01/27/2024

2.5/4

A well-made adaptation of King’s work that balances body horror with questionable morality.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

09/22/2023

2/5

Even though the source material itself is flawed, the film has too many tonal inconsistencies to know whether to laugh at or be creeped out by the experience.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

08/17/2023

B-

The thinner the lawyer becomes the thinner the story gets.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

01/26/2023

2/10

Thinner is jaw-droppingly bad: not only weirdly amateurish but regularly offensive.

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

09/01/2022

F

A wretched excuse for a horror movie and a flat-out disgrace on every level.

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B P

@Bradster69 17h

Not Bad, but Not My Favorite

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Robert b

@RT80637576 Nov 11

Dont overthink watch

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Jonathan N

@Passtheacidtest 08/15/2025

Spoilers: This contains spoilers. Go watch this before reading my review. Best movie about a guy getting a Gypsy curse and then losing a bunch of weight and then killing his entire family I've ever seen.

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John E

@RT97556855 08/06/2025

Very disappointed. This is an awful, ugly movie - there are no good characters. The Mafia guy is the closest to a likable character. It's basically a torture and snuff film. The premise of a selfish fat guy losing lots of weight where he can't stop, that was funny for maybe 30 seconds but that's the whole film. And the sick ending of the main guy's wife, daughter eating the pie, what was with that? Our country used to have community standards to prevent #*$&@ like this.

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thiago s

@Thiagostone 06/11/2025

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas de terror são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom.

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Julian S

@akajulianscott 10/05/2024

You can’t help but enjoy this dark, funny, and often campy story by Stephen King, which wraps up with a twist you won’t forget.

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Tom Holland

Director

Robert John Burke

Billy Halleck

Joe Mantegna

Richie Ginelli

Michael Constantine

Tadzu Lempke

Lucinda Jenney

Heidi Halleck

Kari Wuhrer

Gina Lempke

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Synopsis

Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese lawyer who accidentally hits a Gypsy with his car after his wife distracts him. Given Halleck's influence in town and a general prejudice against Gypsies, he manages to brush the incident under the rug with some unethical legal help from his associates. However, the victim's father, Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine), places a curse on the heavyset man, and he starts to lose weight at an alarming rate, which is followed by other macabre events.

Director: Tom Holland
Producer: Richard P. Rubinstein, Mitchell Galin
Screenwriter: Michael McDowell, Tom Holland
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Spelling Films International
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $15.3M
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Surround

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