An obese 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.
A movie based on a Stephen King work is a little like Kathy Bates in "Misery"--always unpredictable, and occasionally like a sledgehammer to the ankles.
Reduced to some raw-boned ideas, the film version of "Stephen King's Thinner" is horror lite. This is a meat and potatoes genre outing rich on starch but sh...
