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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957
When an ordinary businessman encounters a mysterious radioactive mist during a boating trip, his life takes a bizarre and frightening twist. Soon he finds he is shrinking and within weeks he's just two inches tall battling cats and spiders. Read more
| Starring | Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, Raymond Bailey, Paul Langton |
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| Director | Jack Arnold |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
When an ordinary businessman encounters a mysterious radioactive mist during a boating trip, his life takes a bizarre and frightening twist. Soon he finds he is shrinking and within weeks he's just two inches tall battling cats and spiders.
| Starring | Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, Raymond Bailey, Paul Langton, William Schallert, Frank Scannell, Helene Marshall, Diana Darrin |
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| Director | Jack Arnold |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 18 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 06 Feb 2006 Production year: 1957 |
| Format | DVD |
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A very odd spoof on the wonderful The Incredible Shrinking Man, brought bang up to date with some neat special effects but lacking the shock value of the original. Lily Tomlin is very funny as the housewife accidentally sprayed with a new perfume and ending up the size of the germs she tries so hard to eradicate in her home. This is a pleasing little jaunt through by now highly familiar territory, directed with flair and a light touch by Joel Schumacher. But nothing comes close to the astounding originality of the 1957 classic.
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Not merely the best of Arnold's classic sci-fi movies of the '50s, but one of the finest films ever made in that genre.... read more on Time Out
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50 years on and still going!
For a time when B movies where mass-produced to pay for the next one, Jack Arnold's masterpiece manages to stand out from the others and be reconized as one of the most acomplished SCI-FI of all time.
Unlike the rushed in productions, the pace of Robert Scot Carey's change is gradual, almost unoticeable and up to the point where you share his angst and rage at something that it's completely out of, not only his, but anyone else's control.
His final reflections on how the incredibly small fuses with the incredibly big could't be more in tune with nowaday's talks on quantics and interestelar travelling. WIthin another 50 years it'll surely be as appreciated as it is now and so on...
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Haunting
Excellent '50s sci-fi. Nice, haunting story that works as a metaphor of humanity's disappearance before its own technological innovations. Some of the dialogue (esp. the last few lines of the movie) hasn't aged well, but if you can look past that, this is a terrific action-tragedy.
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