Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo and Kevin McCarthy, with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The tension between the conventional hero who is miniaturized and the "wimp" he is injected into helps produce the film's humour. It had $25,893,810 of domestic gross revenue and won an Oscar, the only film directed by Joe Dante to do so. It was... subsequently novelized by Nathan Elliott. Down-on-his-luck naval aviator Tuck Pendleton is selected to participate in 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. The experiment supervisor Ozzie Wexler escapes with the syringe. After being fatally shot in a nearby shopping mall, he injects Tuck and the pod into Jack Putter , a hypochondriac grocery store clerk.
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| Release date: | July 1, 1987 |
| Directed by: | Joe Dante |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 120 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steven Spielberg, Michael Finnell |
| Editor: | Kent Beyda |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Andrew Laszlo |
| Screenplay by: | Chip Proser, Jeffrey Boam |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure |