Thinner

Thinner (1996)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

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Release date

1996-10-25

Country

United States

Production

Paramount, Spelling Films, Richard P. Rubinstein Productions

Genre

Fantasy, Horror

Budget

$8 500 000

Revenue

$15 315 484

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Director

Tom Holland

Actors

Robert John Burke, Michael Constantine, Lucinda Jenney, Kari Wuhrer, John Horton, Sam Freed, Daniel von Bargen, Joe Mantegna, Elizabeth Franz, Walter Bobbie
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Scenario

Producer

Richard P. Rubinstein, Mitchell Galin, Stephen F. Kesten

Operator

Kees Van Oostrum

Composer

Daniel Licht

Artist

Audition

Leonard Finger

Editing

Marc Laub, Carolyn Jean White
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• Stephen King appeared in a cameo role as Dr. Bangor, a pharmacist.
• Robert John Burke lost 9 kilograms for the role.
• During filming, the screenwriter and director suffered from Bell's palsy (idiopathic, the most common form of facial nerve neuropathy), which paralyzed one side of his face. Immediate injection could have minimized the effects, but due to the producers, he didn't see a doctor for 36 hours. It took him more than a year and a half to fully recover.
• Robert John Burke spent between 4 and 6 hours in the makeup chair daily – depending on his character's appearance.
• Preparing to film the movie took Tom Holland 6 years. Filming was repeatedly postponed, in particular because producers feared the public would attribute the misfortunes of the main character to having AIDS.
• The film's release was scheduled for May 3, 1996, but it was pushed back to October because audiences disliked the ending at preview screenings, and in April the film crew returned to Maine for reshoots.
• The film is set in Connecticut, but was shot in Maine, where Stephen King wrote the original literary work (1984).