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Stephen King's Thinner

1996

Tom Holland

Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine ...

5.2

2,688

Horror. Thriller A fat Lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.

	Author	Review
United States	Lawrence Van Gelder The New York Times	"'Stephen King's Thinner' has the outlines of Shakespearean tragedy and the intellectual content of a jack o'lantern."	NEU
United States	Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe	"Never quite scary, never funny for long, never enough over-the-top. It's never compelling plotwise, either"	NEG
United States	John Petrakis Chicago Tribune	"Thinner has its meaty moments, but overall, it's Stephen King lite. Less taste, less filling, less fun."	NEU
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	"There’s really nothing particularly fresh in this routinely crafted, banally scripted and directed effort. Mantegna’s humorously arrogant performance is the pic’s sole distinctive element"	NEG
United States	John Anderson Los Angeles Times	"The problem with 'Thinner' (...) is that it's medium-level King. It lacks the gravity of 'Shawshank' and the crazed obsession of 'Misery.' It's more like 'Needful Things,' another good film of a lightweight story"	NEU
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"Apart from its rushed pacing and occasionally stale dialogue, 'Thinner' suffers even more from the fact that it has no redeemable characters."	NEG

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