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Innerspace

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Original title

Innerspace

Year

1987

Running time

120 min.

Country

United States

Director

Joe Dante

Screenwriter

Jeffrey Boam, Chip Proser. Story: Chip Proser

Cast

Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Cinematography

Andrew Laszlo

Producer

Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, Guber-Peters Company

Genre

Sci-Fi. Action. Adventure. Comedy

Synopsis

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton is placed in a one-man submersible and reduced to microscopic size as part of an experiment where he is to be injected into the bloodstream of a rabbit. But industrial criminals break into the laboratory and steal the controlling microchip from the miniaturizer. One of the scientists runs with the syringe containing Tuck and accidentally injects it into the buttock of neurotic supermarket clerk Jack Putter before he is shot. Tuck connects a spy camera to Jack’s optic nerve to find where he is and then uses a broadcast mike attached to Jack’s eardrum to communicate with him and get his help. With Jack initially thinking he is possessed, Tuck tries to organize him to find the crooks, get the microchip and return him to full size before his 24 hour air-supply runs out.

Awards: 1987: Oscar: Best Visual Effects

1987: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): 3 nominations

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Critics' reviews

"Here is an absurd, unwieldy, overplotted movie that nevertheless is entertaining - and some of the fun comes from the way the plot keeps laying it on. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Using a twist on the ingenious premise of 'Fantastic Voyage' and a pair of very different but equally irresistible leading men, Innerspace is densely inventive and consistently hilarious"

Sheila Benson: Los Angeles Times
"It's not imaginative enough to be any more than an entertainingly good time. But it's an enormously unassuming, likable comedy"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"It doesn't have the dark edge of Joe Dante's other works, but brilliant performances by Martin Short and Meg Ryan make it a joy from start to finish (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

Ian Nathan: Empire

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Innerspace

1987

Joe Dante

6.3

(20,988)