Innerspace
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| Innerspace | |
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| Image:Innerspaceposter2.jpg | |
| Directed by | Joe Dante |
| Produced by | Michael Finnell |
| Written by | Chip Proser (story) Jeffrey Boam & Chip Proser (screenplay) |
| Starring | Dennis Quaid Meg Ryan Martin Short Kevin McCarthy Fiona Lewis Robert Picardo Vernon Wells Henry Gibson Wendy Schaal Harold Sylvester William Schallert John Hora |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Andrew Laszlo |
| Editing by | Kent Beyda |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | July 1, 1987 (USA) |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Innerspace is an Academy Award-winning 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was based on the classic 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Martin Short, and Kevin McCarthy with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
[edit] Plot synopsis
Down on his luck Navy pilot Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) is selected as a guinea pig to take place in an experimental project which will have him placed in submersible pod, miniaturized to microscopic size and injected into the body of a rabbit. Immediately after being miniaturized, the experiment takes a bad turn when the lab is attacked. The experiment supervisor Ozzie Wexler escapes with miniaturized Pendleton. After sustaining a fatal gunshot wound, he injects Tuck and the pod into hypochondriac Safeway clerk Jack Putter (Martin Short).
After establishing contact with his new host, Tuck must figure out how to get out of Jack's "Innerspace" before he runs out of oxygen.
After making contact with the lab, Tuck and Jack are informed that there is another group of scientists and capitalists attempting to accomplish the same goal of miniaturization for use in their scheme to sell the technology for use in espionage. The raid on the lab was to steal a chip vital to the process. While at a restraunt with Tuck's girlfriend Jack is kidnapped by Mr. Igoe and carried over the shoulder to a meat truck.
Now that they have the chip, they will miniaturize agent, Mr. Igoe, send him into the body of Jack, and extract a second chip required for re-enlargement.
Igoe's craft eventually finds the pod, but is disabled after Tuck jammed one of the pod's arms into a thrust port. Mr Igoe abandoned it using an ejection system, and attempted to crack the pod windows using a drill on his exosuit. Igoe was killed, however, when Jack's stomach ulcer acted up, digesting him.
[edit] Awards
1988:
- Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects, Won
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Best Director, Best Science Fiction Film, Best Special Effects, nominated
[edit] See also
- Fantastic Voyage – an earlier film with a similar plot
| Films directed by Joe Dante |
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| The Movie Orgy | Hollywood Boulevard | Piranha | The Howling | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Gremlins | Explorers | The Shadow Man | Innerspace | Amazon Women on the Moon | The 'Burbs | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | Eerie, Indiana | Matinee | Runaway Daughters | The Second Civil War | The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy | Small Soldiers | R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Homecoming | Trapped Ashes | The Screwfly Solution | The Greatest Show Ever |
| additional contributions Rock 'n' Roll High School | The Phantom |
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