Details

Release year: 1987

Storyline

When a test pilot taking part in a secret miniaturization experiment is accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk, the two must work together in order to prevent the technology from falling into the wrong hands.

Top credits

Directors

Joe Dante

Writers

Cast

Dennis Quaid — Lt. Tuck Pendleton
Martin Short — Jack Putter
Meg Ryan — Lydia Maxwell
Kevin McCarthy — Victor Scrimshaw

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Awards

1 win & 0 nominations

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Did you know

• All of the cells seen outside the pod were in fact made out of Jello according to Peter Kuran, the special effects supervisor.

• John Hora, who had previously worked as Joe Dante's cinematographer on all of his movies, was cast as Ozzie after Steven Spielberg suggested him to play the absent minded professor. Director Dante and producer Michael Finnell were very skeptical about that idea and Spielberg insisted that they give him a screen test to just to see and was cast after impressing Dante and Finnell.

• This is the only film directed by Joe Dante to win an Academy Award. It won the Best Visual Effects award.