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The US comedy film, set in suburbia, features kids who accidentally shrink themselves with an inventor's experimental shrink ray to be a quarter-inch tall and must survive the indoors and the outdoors on a different scale. [15] [11] [4] [17] [3] [9] [12] [2] [8] [1] [5] Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves: 1997
In each episode, Professor Carter and his two teenage kids use a shrinking machine to shrink themselves and their dune buggy and explore and experience the world from the perspective of an insect. 1968 1969 Fantastic Voyage: Characters go on missions in which they board a submarine and get miniaturized. 1969 1969 The Secret Service
Downsizing is a 2017 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by Payne and Jim Taylor, and starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig.
Once taken to the laboratory, the criminals shrink Igoe and inject him into Jack to locate Tuck, kill him, and obtain the other chip that is attached to the pod. After Igoe has been injected, Jack and Lydia free themselves and order everyone in the laboratory, including Scrimshaw and Canker, into the miniaturization device at gunpoint.
Confronted by Paterson, Franz says his dolls are all modeled on people he knows, and shows him a complete run of Bob dolls to prove the resemblance to a shrunken Bob is meaningless. Franz implores Sally to stay at Dolls, Inc. despite her reporting him to the police. When she refuses, he uses a machine to shrink her down to doll size. [4]
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Prior to 1977, toys were released together with films as merchandising tie-ins. Films that were suitably toyetic spawned numerous licensed properties, often marketed heavily to children. Beginning in the late 1970s, this approach was flipped as films began to appear that were based on popular toys.
[8] [9] Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed that the film was based on Asimov's book. Its modern and imaginative production design received five nominations at the 39th Academy Awards mostly in technical departments, winning for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in Color .