SPOILER request for "Thinner"

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I was watching this crap flick on cable last night, thinking to myself "this story should really be much shorter than it is." Sure enough, sleepytime rolled around and I missed the ending. There's no way in hell I'm going to see this movie again or read the book, but I kinda need to know the ending.
My guess is that the thinning guy finally tracks down the gypsy who whispers in his ear, "fatter."
Am I right?

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's where I left off:
http://www.canoe.ca/MovieImages/thinner.jpg

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I read this story a million years ago but can't remember the end. I don't think it has a happy ending though. I think the "Thinner" disease gets transferred to a piece of cake or something and then the guy's wife or kid or something eats the cake, getting the Thinner curse instead. Someone else will probably remember better.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if the film differs from the book but here's what happens in the book:

The father tracks down the gypsy, who says that the only way he can get rid of the curse is to pass it on to someone else. The father decides it's really his wife's fault and that she deserves to waste away for giving him the blowjob that caused the accident in the first place. This leads to some elaborate thing where he puts some of his blood into a cherry pie, which I guess passes the curse on to anyone who eats it or something. He leaves the pie for his wife and goes to bed. He wakes up the next day feeling great; THE CURSE IS GONE HOORAY! He runs downstairs and sees two pie plates in the sink! OH NO HIS DAUGHTER ATE THE PIE TOO! He has destroyed his entire family! Shattered; he cuts a slice of the pie and curses himself again because he can't stand the thought of living with the fact that he has completely destroyed two families through his own selfishness and abdication of responsibility.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The story ends there but the implication is that dude's entire family wastes away and the gypsies have their sweet sweet revenge and lez up.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(I read this about 18 years ago so I might be wrong about the lezzing up part.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched this movie.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't think I have anything else to say about it, though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that pie ending makes sense, giving that every character is so fucking awful, but I think I like my "fatter" ending better. End with a bang, sez I.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

horrible horrible piece of shite. as with most Stephen King movie adaptations, with the odd exception.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the film ending was similar (it's been awhile). His assumptions about his wife's infidelity were more the cause of the whole pie shenanigans rather than anger over the initial blowjob.

I just realized that most movies seem to warn against drivetime bjs. Parenthood, World According To Garp and this film all show disastrous consequences. Are there any non-porn films that show a successful, accident-free example?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Guy finds gypsys, asks then to remove curse, they laugh. Guy says he will put the "white mans curse" on them. Guy calls old friend who happens to be some hard as nails Mafia dude. Together they give gypsies a very hard time, machine gunning encampment, kidnapping and darking up the old mans relatives. Old man gives up bakes the "humble pie" which he gives to the cursed guy and says if you give this cake to someone else and they eat it the curse will transfer to them.

Guy goes home, either finds out or already knows, his wife is cheating on him. His kid goes to see a friend, gives wife pie, goes to bed pretty pleased with life. Wakes up goes downstairs sees a slice of pie left with TWO spoons in the dish. Realises his daughter must have come home and shared the pie with his wife, therby both contracting the curse. After this unpleasentness guy decides to chow down on remaining piece of pie. As i recall final shot is him with a rather manical look eating the pie. This is from memory but i think pretty accurate.

― avtar sandhu, Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, I forgot about the infidelity thing. (Like I said, it's been YEARS.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The movie would have been ok if it starred Bruce Campbell and played for comedy.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

In the film then ending is totally different, with about 5 minutes to go it transpires that the gypsies were in fact aliens and the father must fly a spacecraft from Roswell direcCredits.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha "Thinner Tommyknockers"!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that ending doesn't really make sense - if he's already cured himself by passing the curse onto someone else how could he still have the power to infect himself with it again? never mind, my head hurts.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The curse is still in the pie; anyone who eats it will get it (this is very explicit in the book).

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(IOW it isn't the act of eating the pie that gets rid of the curse; it's the act of making it.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I read the book when I was in Cyprus w/my g/f (now my wife cheers cheers) GOD IT WAS RUBBISH!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the whole thing just a sexphobic take on AIDS?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 9 September 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

THE CURSE IS IN THE PIE

― TOMBOT, Friday, 10 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

when come back bring curse

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds like the most ludicrous film ever! I have another spoiler request. I've seen the first half of the movie "Fletch" starring Chevy Chase FOUR TIMES. Never seen the end of it.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

No spoiler, just make yourself watch it. It's - unquestionably - brilliantly funny.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

uhhh, the good guys win. nobody other than Chevy gets a funny line in the whole movie so I get bored at watching him riff constantly and nobody notices. Actually, Joe Don Baker notices. Looks like he wants to bite off Chevy's face.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

okay I will get it out on video.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 10 September 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

in the book he sleeps with the pie.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

THE CURSE IS IN THE PIE

True, true

― Original Playa (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

why didn't he just go back to the gypsies and say "uh listen, can I get a couple more of those pies? seems I dropped it on way home, haw haw".

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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