Thinner [videorecording] / Spelling Films ; produced by Richard P. Rubinstein & Mitchell Galin ; screenplay by Michael McDowell & Tom Holland ; directed by Tom Holland.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: OF459 | Olive FilmsPublication details: [United States] : Olive Films, c2012.Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Music, Daniel Licht ; director of photography, Kees Van Oostrum ; screenplay, Michael McDowell, Tom Holland ; director, Tom Holland.
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Main Library | DVD | HORROR Thinner | Available | 33111009489887 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The plot of Thinner concerns massively overweight lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke), who is receiving an oral gift from his wife (Lucinda Jenney) while driving down the street one night, when he becomes so carried away that he runs over an old Gypsy woman (Irma St. Paule), killing her. Nobody in town likes the traveling Gypsies much, so Halleck's pals -- a judge and a cop -- cover up the incident. After the cover-up, the dead woman's father, Tadzu Lempke (Michael Constantine), touches Halleck's face and whispers "thinner." Pretty soon, Halleck is losing weight at an incredible rate of more than 40 pounds a week. He tries everything, but learns that Lempke is the only man who can remove the curse. In the meantime, the judge dies of a mysterious skin ailment, and the cop commits suicide. When begging and pleading with Lempke doesn't work, Halleck turns to more drastic methods of persuasion. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.
Title from container.
Music, Daniel Licht ; director of photography, Kees Van Oostrum ; screenplay, Michael McDowell, Tom Holland ; director, Tom Holland.
Joe Mantegna, Kari Wuhrer, Michael Constantine, Robert John Burke, Lucinda Jenney.
Based on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror and countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option.
MPAA rating: R; for horror violence and gore, language and sexuality.
DVD, [region 1, anamorphic widescreen presentation].