Innerspace [Blu-ray]

Director: Joe Dante Joe Dante

Overview

Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft, with Tuck at the controls, is to be shrunk down to molecular size and inserted into the body of a living rabbit. If successful, the test could result in radical breakthroughs in surgical techniques, but some high-tech thieves attempt to steal Tuck and his ship while both are in miniature form. Enter Jack Putter (Martin Short), a mild-mannered, hypochondriac retail store clerk, a nerd who suddenly finds himself injected with Tuck and his tiny ship. Now poor Jack's got to rise above his mundane existence to help an American hero get back to safety, while also trying to reunite Tuck with his beautiful estranged girlfriend Lydia (Meg Ryan). Innerspace (1987) won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/04/2015
UPC:	0883929452255
Original Release:	1987
Source:	Warner Home Video
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	14,714

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dennis Quaid	Lt. Tuck Pendelton
Martin Short	Jack Putter
Meg Ryan	Lydia Maxwell
Kevin McCarthy	Victor Scrimshaw
Fiona Lewis	Dr. Margaret Canker
Vernon Wells	Igoe
Robert Picardo	The Cowboy
Wendy Schaal	Wendy
Harold Sylvester	Pete Blanchard
William Schallert	Dr. Greenbush
Henry Gibson	Wormwood
Orson Bean	Lydia's Editor
John Hora	Ozzie Wexler
Mark L. Taylor	Dr. Niles
Kevin Hooks	Duane
Archie Hahn III	Messenger
Kathleen Freeman	Dream Lady
Archie Hahn	Messenger
Dick Miller	Cab Driver,Scrimshaw's Henchman
Kenneth Tobey	Man in Restroom
Terry McGovern	Travel Agent
Robert Gray	Lab Assault Henchman
Jeffrey Boam	Lydia's Interview
John Miranda	Man in Elevator
Charles Aidman	Speaker at Banquet
Herb Mitchell	Camera Store Clerk
Neil Ross	Voices
Chuck Jones	Supermarket Customer
Jerry Goldsmith	Composer
Joe Flaherty	Waiting Room Patient
Andrea Martin	Waiting Room Patient
Jason Laskay	Scrimshaw's Henchman
Shawn Nelson	Wendell
Christine Avila	Lab Technician
Alexandra Borrie	Lab Technician
Jenny Gago	Lab Technician
Robert Gounley	Lab Technician
Grainger Hines	Rusty
Mike Garibaldi	Cop
Richard McGonagle	Cop
Terence McGovern	Travel Agent
Robert Neches	Lab Guard
Rance Howard	Supermarket Customer
Laura Waterbury	Supermarket Customer
Kurt Braunreiter	Lab Assault Henchman
Brewster Sears	Lab Assault Henchman
Alan Blumenfeld	Man with Camera
Neil Rosso	Pod Computer
Joe Dante	Actor

Technical Credits

Chip Proser

Joe Dante	Director
Rob Bottin	Special Effects
Michael Finnell	Producer
Peter Guber	Executive Producer,Producer
Dennis Muren	Special Effects
Jon Peters	Executive Producer,Producer
Chip Proser	Producer,Screenwriter
Steven Spielberg	Executive Producer,Producer
Frank Marshall	Producer
Rick Anderson	Special Effects
Wayne Allwine	Sound Effects
Teresa Eckton	Sound Effects
Christopher Flick	Sound Effects
Warren Hamilton Jr.	Sound Effects
Ken King	Sound Effects
Al Broussard	Special Effects
Bruce Paul Barbour	Stunts
John Roesch	Sound Effects
Christopher Duddy	Special Effects
Juniko Moody	Special Effects
Gary Bierend	Special Effects
Gary D. Bierend	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Essentially a visually sophisticated update of Robert Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage (1966), Innerspace is a wacky sci-fi treat that looks like oodles of fun for both the performers and the Oscar-winning special effects department. There's something inherently watchable about the "oops, we're headed straight for the gall bladder!" emergencies of this story matter, and it gives Martin Short a license to be physically scattershot -- something the audience doesn't always grant him so willingly. Dennis Quaid's hotshot pilot is key to setting Joe Dante's grinning tone; his wisecracks under duress keep the movie humming along at the level of screwball comedy, in which nothing really bad can happen. The giddy "reality on hold" mindset of Innerspace is a logical offshoot from Dante's Gremlins, though the director is migrating from comic fantasy to fantastic comedy. That he helped direct the episodic parody Amazon Women on the Moon the same year suggests his increasing fondness for the ridiculous. The shrunken production design and weightless sensibilities of Innerspace likely helped inspire Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which would turn size altering into a franchise two years later.

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