Innerspace (1987) on Netflix
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers for a secret miniaturization experiment, and a wounded scientist injects the shrunken pilot and his pod into Jack Putter, a hypochondriac grocery clerk.
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Plot summary
In San Francisco, aviator Tuck Pendleton signs up for a secret experiment that shrinks him and his submersible pod to microscopic size. The pod is loaded into a syringe for injection into a rabbit, but a rival organization attacks the lab to seize the miniaturization technology. Experiment supervisor Ozzie Wexler flees with the syringe and is shot by a henchman, Mr. Igoe, at a shopping mall. To keep the experiment out of the rivals' hands, the wounded Ozzie injects the pod into a passerby, the grocery clerk Jack Putter. Tuck thinks he is inside the rabbit until he wires himself to the host's optic nerve and inner ear. He can then talk to Jack, and together they must reach the lab, where scientists explain that one of two vital computer chips was stolen.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Innerspace (1987)
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- Joe Dante later said the film "was a hit on video. It was one of the first big videos, and it was discovered on video, basically", blaming an ad campaign that was "just a giant thumb with a little tiny pod on it".
- Peter Guber had the script rewritten by Jeffrey Boam as a comedy; Boam kept only the ridiculous idea of a person miniaturized and put into someone else's body, and said they originally thought it might be Michael J. Fox inside Arnold Schwarzenegger's body.
- The film grossed an estimated $95 million worldwide and won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, the only film directed by Dante to do so.
