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Overview

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Director:
Joe Johnston
Writers (WGA):
Stuart Gordon (story) &
Brian Yuzna (story) ...
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Release Date:
23 June 1989 (USA) more
Tagline:
The most astonishing, innovative, backyard adventure of all time!
Plot:
Wayne Szalinski is your average "nutty scientist", working on a top secret machine which miniaturizes objects... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 10 nominations more
User Comments:
Fond memories of those summer days when it was too hot to go outside more (54 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Grounded (USA) (working title)
Teenie Weenies (USA) (working title)
The Big Backyard (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The animated short Tummy Trouble (1989) was released theatrically with this movie. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The title is grammatically incorrect. The past tense of 'shrink' is 'shrank'; 'shrunk' is the past participle. more
Quotes:
Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Sr.: [about the Szalinskis] Weird family. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Turn It Up more

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Fond memories of those summer days when it was too hot to go outside, 9 April 2004
Author: DarthBill from United States

Leave it to Disney to give us a friendly mad scientist in the form of Rick Moranis, who plays an affable, amiable absent minded professor family man by name of Wayne who's latest invention, kept in the attic, is designed to shrink things down. Alas, he's not having much luck with it, as his initial test subject, an apple, gets blown up. Later, one of his neighbor's sons, Ron, hits a baseball through Wayne's window while he's out at giving a science presentation and when Ron's older brother Russ sends him to fetch it with Wayne's son Nick they get shrunk thanks to the baseball whacking the machine. When Russ goes up with Nick's older sister Amy they get shrunk too, along with a chair and Wayne's thinking couch. Unfortunately, a frustrated Wayne, unaware of what's happened, comes home and demolishes his machine and accidentally throws out his kids and his neighbor's (Matt Frewer of TV's Max Headrome fame) with the garbage. It is not until Wayne starts cleaning up the attic that he discovers the shrunken couch and chair (which he steps on) and realizes that his missing kids were shrunk by it and that he threw them out with the trash. So while Wayne embarks on a series of unsuccessful attempts to find his kids without stepping on them, the kids must make a dangerous trek through the uncut back yard, encountering "giant" toys, food, bees, ants, lawnmowers and, strangely enough, a scorpion (someone's escaped pet?).

Good fun, and a lot less cynical than a lot of today's youth oriented adventure films. And of course, the message of family values and how it's important for dads to understand their kids in addition to spending time with them, is also present, but never overly preachy.

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