Innerspace

A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.

• Director:Joe Dante
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:120 minutes

Cast

Dennis Quaid : Lt. Tuck Pendleton
Martin Short : Jack Putter
Meg Ryan : Lydia Maxwell
Kevin McCarthy : Victor Eugene Scrimshaw
Fiona Lewis : Dr. Margaret Canker

Down-on-his-luck Naval aviator Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) is selected as a guinea pig to participate in an experimental project which will place him in a submersible pod, to be shrunk 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 (John Hora) escapes with the miniaturized Tuck in a syringe. 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. With Tuck’s guidance, Jack enrolls the assistance of Tuck’s recently estranged girlfriend, Lydia (Meg Ryan).

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. They are led by the mysterious Mr. Scrimshaw, a suave white-dressed villain (played by Kevin McCarthy).

The raid on the lab was to steal a chip vital to the process. While at a restaurant with Tuck’s girlfriend, Jack is kidnapped by Mr. Igoe (Vernon Wells) and carried over the shoulder to a meat truck and taken to the lab.

Now that they have the chip, they miniaturize Mr. Igoe, and send him into the body of Jack, to extract a second chip required for re-enlargement. Read more

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