A fat lawyer finds himself growing thinner when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call 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 thinner.
Thinner stars:
- Robert John Burke as Billy Halleck
- Joe Mantagna as Ritchie Ginelli
- Lucinda Jenney as Heidi Halleck
When a gypsy caravan arrives in Fairview, the conservative judge Phillips forces the gypsies to leave town. Meanwhile the gluttony lawyer, Billy Halleck, who has difficulties losing weight, successfully defends the mobster Ritchie Ginelli in court. During the night he celebrates with his partner and wives at a dinner party. While driving back home, his wife, Heidi, pleasures Billy during which he accidentally hits the old gypsy, Suzanne Lempke, the daughter of the patriarch Tadzu Lempke. During the trial, Billy omits the reason of the accident; the chief of police Duncan Hopley perjuries himself, and the bigoted judge declares Billy not guilty. The next day, Billy, Duncan and Phillips are cursed by Tadzu who puts a hex on each of them. Billy gets thinner and thinner and while seeking out Tadzu and asking him to remove the spell, he suspects his wife is having an affair with his doctor and friend, Mike Houston. Billy feels his life is running out and ask for help from Ritchie to convince Tadzu to lift the curse. 
I have to admit that Thinner is not one of my favorite Stephen King movies or books. I found Thinner to be a rather boorish movie while the book was maybe one or two rungs above. But then again, the movie doesn’t really follow the book as closely as I would have like. I think the overall movie might have been better if they had kept the original ending instead of giving it a happy Hollywood one. Not every story has a happy ending. A good example is The Mist…a great story, a good movie, a horrific ending.
If you want to know what the original ending is, pick up the book and put down the remote…at least until my next review when I will be looking at the next Stephen King adaptation – Misery. 
And you know what they say….Misery loves company.
