Streamin’ King is grave-digging through the myriad Stephen King adaptations available on streaming. This time we’re watching Thinner, the 1996 adaptation of King’s 1984 novel originally published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.
THE GIST: Husband/dad/lawyer distracted during automotive sexytime runs down elderly Romani leader’s slightly less elderly daughter; titular single-word curse cast upon White Man From Town. Effects as advertised, unstoppable terminal weight loss at rapid speed, leading to quest for cure and/or sweeping vengeance before, as he puts it, “being erased” completely.
PEDIGREE: Directed/co-written by Child’s Play/Fright Night helmer Tom Holland, who the year prior adapted King’s The Langoliers as a TV miniseries. Script co-penned by Michael McDowell, who has writing credits on Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Tales from the Darkside. Stars Robert John Burke (Gossip Girl, BlacKkKlansman), three-time Emmy nominee Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds, The Godfather: Part III), Lucinda Jenney (Rain Man, The Mothman Prophecies), Bethany
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