Thinner (film)

Thinner marketed as Stephen Kings 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 Whrer and Bethany Joy Lenz.

Billy Halleck Robert John Burke is an obese, upperclass 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 Billy lives in is currently hosting a carnival, which is run by gypsies whom the town seems to have prejudices against.While driving one night, Billy accidentally runs over an elderly gypsy woman named Suzanne Lempke Irma St. Paule as she is leaving a local pharmacy Heidi was distracting him by performing a handjob on him. the pharmacist, Dr. Bangor, was played by Stephen King, and the Bangor name was a reference to Kings hometown Bangor, Maine. Since Judge Cary Rossington John Horton is a personal friend of his, the death is ruled accidental, and no charges are filed against him. Outraged by the injustice, Suzannes 106yearold 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, concerned, brings in Dr. Mike Houston Sam Freed, with whom Billy suspects his wife is having an affair. ........

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