Thinner (film)
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Promotional film poster
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| Directed by | Tom Holland |
| Produced by |
Mitchell Galin Richard P. Rubinstein |
| Screenplay by |
Michael McDowell Tom Holland |
| Based on |
Thinner by Stephen King |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Daniel Licht |
| Cinematography | Kees Van Oostrum |
| Edited by | Marc Laub |
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Production
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Spelling Films International
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (US theatrical) |
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Release date
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million (estimated) |
| Box office | $15.3 million (domestic) |
Thinner (marketed as Stephen King's Thinner) is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Michael McDowell and Holland. The film is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name and stars Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wührer and Bethany Joy Lenz.
The film screened alongside Michael Jackson's short film Michael Jackson's Ghosts in select theaters around the world.
Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke) is an obese, upper-class lawyer living with his wife Heidi (Lucinda Jenney) and their daughter Linda (Bethany Joy Lenz). Billy recently defended an underworld crime boss named Richie "The Hammer" Ginelli (Joe Mantegna) in court. The town he lives in is hosting a carnival, run by gypsies that the townspeople hold obvious prejudice against.
One night, while Billy is driving, Heidi, in an attempt to persuade him to forget about his obsession with food, performs fellatio on him. Distracted, Billy accidentally runs over Suzanne Lempke (Irma St. Paule), an elderly gypsy woman, as she leaves a local pharmacy. Since Judge Cary Rossington (John Horton) is a personal friend of his, he soft-pedals the case, and no charges are filed against him. Outraged by the injustice, Suzanne's 106-year-old father, Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine) curses Billy by touching his face and saying the word "thinner". Billy begins to lose weight rapidly, regardless of how much he eats. Heidi, fearing the weight loss may be due to cancer, brings in Dr. Mike Houston (Sam Freed), with whom Billy soon begins to suspect his wife is having an affair.
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