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Stephen King's Thinner - Trailer - YouTube
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 nothing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmv4me1mTY
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THINNER 1996 - Joe Mantegna, Robert John Burke, Lucinda Jenney Movie - YouTube
A lawyer is cursed by a gypsy to lose weight...and lose weight...and lose weight...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7AnWbcxcOA
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Movie Review: Thinner (1996)
Thinner is a 1996 body horror movie based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, which was directed by Tom Holland, who brought us the beloved classics, Fright Night (1985) and Child's Play (1988). On paper, King and Holland is like a match made in horror heaven, but critics weren't too kind to Thinner; many…
https://attackofthecouchpotato.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/movie-review-thinner-1996/
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Review of Thinner Movie | The StephenKing.com Message Board
The film adaptation is faithful to the book and workmanlike enough, but it is fair to say that, like the book, it does little beyond telling an enjoyable but unexceptional story with efficiency.
http://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/review-of-thinner-movie.1441/
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Movie Review - - Eat and Be Thin. What's the Catch? - NYTimes.com
Eat all you want, 12,000 calories a day and more, if you like. Devour haunches of turkey, mounds of corn and wash the whole thing down with gobs of whipped cream. Snack between meals out of giant bags of chips. Just don't say no.If you do, you might die, because you're wasting away from a Gypsy curse.That's the premise of ''Stephen King's Thinner,'' based on one of the prolific author's novels published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE4D81E30F935A15753C1A960958260
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Movie Review: 'Stephen King's Thinner' | EW.com
In Stephen King’s Thinner, Billy Halleck, a roly-poly 300-pound lawyer, accidentally runs down an old Gypsy woman and gets a curse placed on him in retaliation. Overnight, he begins to lose weight - a few pounds every week, then every day, then every hour. It’s a state of affairs he initially greets quite favorably (at last, his diet is working!), until he realizes that he’s shedding tonnage beyond his control.
http://www.ew.com/article/1996/11/08/movie-review-stephen-kings-thinner
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Film Review: Thinner (1996)
Obese attorney Billy Halleck accidentally runs over a gypsy woman with his car. When his police cronies and the judge help Halleck cover up the incident, the victimâ??s father, Tadzu Lempke, puts a carb-conscious curse on his daughterâ??s killer. Before long, hefty Halleck is dropping an incredible 40 pounds a week, and his only hope of survival lies in Tadzuâ??s hands. Based on Stephen Kingâ??s best-seller.
http://horrornews.net/32429/film-review-thinner-1996
