Innerspace
Innerspace is a 1987 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. It was inspired by the 1966 science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan, with Robert Picardo and Kevin McCarthy, and music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. It grossed an estimated $95 million worldwide and won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects, the only film directed by Dante to do so.
Plot
In San Francisco, down-on-his-luck U.S. Navy aviator Lt. Tuck Pendleton resigns his commission and volunteers for a secret miniaturization experiment. He is placed in a submersible pod and both are shrunk to microscopic size. They are transferred into a syringe to be injected into a rabbit, but the lab is attacked by a rival organization, led by scientist Dr. Margaret Canker, that plans to seize the experiment and steal the miniaturization technology.
Awards
Cast
- Andrea Martin
- Charles Aidman
- Chuck Jones
- Dennis Quaid
- Dick Miller
- Fiona Lewis
- Harold Sylvester
- Henry Gibson
- Jeffrey Boam
- Kathleen Freeman
- Kenneth Tobey
- Kevin Hooks
- Kevin McCarthy
- Mark L. Taylor
- Martin Short
- Meg Ryan
- Neil Ross
- Orson Bean
- Rance Howard
- Robert Picardo
- Terry McGovern
- Vernon Wells
- Wendy Schaal
- William Schallert