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Review Summaries
"An overweight lawyer is driving with his wife when he accidentally runs over a gypsy woman. He gets off thanks to a cop and a judge. However the father of the Gypsy curses the 3 of them. Now the lawyer is drastically losing weight, thanks to the curse. The cop and the judge have different curses and they kill themselves. Now the lawyer teams up with a gangster to get the gypsy to stop the curse."
Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
"If you are old enough to remember “Room 222”'s gentle principal in that 1960's TV hit, then you will marvel at Michael Constantine's performance as Tadzu Lempke, the centenarian patriarch of a roving band of gypsies. Considered unsavory nuisances whom the sheriff wants evicted, the gypsies legally lure curious onlookers. One of them, Billy Halleck (Burke), a dangerously overweight lawyer, ogles the nubile gypsy daughter (Lenz) gyrating seductively, but her unexpected vulgarity sets a sinister tone for what follows.
In this 1996 Stephen King thriller, Billy and his wife accidentally run down and kill Lempke's aged daughter after she pilfers from a drug store. However, the couple is acquitted as townsfolk “testify” in a stacked courtroom. Enraged, Lempke eerily grazes Billy while murmuring the curse, “Thinner.”
Within days, Billy credits his new “diet” for his sudden weight loss which continues at a frightful pace. The sight of him going from obese to “normal” to gaunt are truly frightening, especially as the gypsies mockingly camp nearby. Although other townsfolk are cursed in even more grotesque ways (one commits suicide), Billy realizes all are doomed unless he can reason with Lempke, man-to-man. Still, Billy is continually mocked, and flees with a near-fatal slingshot wound through his right hand.
Now, leveraging the threat of violence against Ms. Slingshot, Billy forces Lempke to reveal that the only “antidote” is to pass the curse to someone else, as deceptively as possible. With a few scores of his own to settle, including that of his unfaithful wife, Billy sets the trap, but forgets one very important detail.
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Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 35% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 35% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- fantasy story on present day Earth
Horror film?
Yes
Kind of Horror Story
- evil witch(es)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/medium straight
Body type
- fat (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- mage/magician
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can cast all sorts of spells
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) long, like a girl
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity
- Eastern European
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physical condition
- physically sick
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Misc settings
- mansion
- bar/restaurant
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Small town?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Tone of movie
- fearful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- licking
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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