Thinner | | Cast : | Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna | | Director : | Tom Holland | | Studio : | Republic Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, AC-3, THX, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 25, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | August 21, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | November 08, 2004 | | Summary | You killed my daughter, I curse you! | Content
 | Ok, this movie is not very good. Well, except for maybe...no, it's not. The concept of the film is interesting. The payoff is not. The visuals are creepy in their own way, and the actors are capable, but something more is desired. An overweight man and his wife accidentally run over an old gypsy woman, and an even older gypsy man gets upset and puts a curse on the man, causing him to lose weight no matter how much he eats and continue to lose weight until he dies from it. I would recommend you see it if you're a hard-core stephen king fan, though this would be the very last one on my list for you to see and is definitely only a rental if anything. This is one of those movies you see on tv at 1am, and you just continue to watch it to the end just to see what happens. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 03, 2004 | | Summary | PRETTY BIG TO BE THIN:c) | Content
| Enjoyed the movie. Teaches everyone to never underestimate anything someone else is capable of... especially if you don't know them. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 01, 2003 | | Summary | GOOD MOVIE | Content
| Thinner is one of kings better movies along with children of the corn and creepshow. His worst movies were maximum overdrive and dreamcatcher. I enjoyed this movie but this a movie u cant take to serioussly or think of it as horror to much- it was horror but took diffrent approuch then most horror movies. Its about an overweight lawyer who kills an old gypsy in his car one night and then gets cursed by her gypsy father and the gypsy says thinner. the lawyer dosent know it but he soon enough finds out that a curse was put on him when he starts losing weight quickly and his judge friend also gets a diffrent curse stuck on him- this movie keeps u watching to the end - u will want to see what happens as u see him losing more and more weight and wondering what will happen - sure the makeup looks a little fake in the shower scene but other than that it was ok and the ending was really good- i recomend this film to rent or buy - 4 stars |
| Rating | | | Date | October 07, 2003 | | Summary | white man from town... | Content
| Get outta town!! What starts off as a horror movie turns into an unintentional, hilarious comedy -- especially after the old gypsy woman gets hit. The characters are charicatures, cardboard stereotypes played for laughs. And I'm laughing. I think the makers of this movie said, "Screw it, we ain't deliverin anything near horror" and they made it for laughs. The lawyer is an arrogant fathead (literally) who, in one funny scene, shovels in a trainload of food, and mistakenly flirts with the fiercely vengeful Gypsy daughter who flips him off. I think gluttony is a theme running through King's imagination, like the blueberry pie puking kid in Stand by Me. Also, there's not enough of a payoff at the end; you want to see the effects of his revenge on the good doctor who's trying to cure him, but that's cut out. Well, they should cut out slices of pie instead of this movie. |
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