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Innerspace (1987)

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ieutenant 'Tuck' Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) and Jack Putter (Martin Short) couldn't be more different. Pendleton is a high-flying ladies man, whose job as a test pilot for the military gives him the pick of the girls, much to the disgust of his long-time girlfriend Lydia (Meg Ryan), who dumps him early on in the movie. Putter is a hypochondriac, who works in the local convenience store and whose attempts with girls start and finish (miserably) with one of the check-out gitrls at the store.

Pendleton is involved in a secret experiment to shrink objects (remember 'The Fantastic Voyage' from the sixties?) but just at the moment of success the lab is stormed byy the bad guys, who want to get hold of the technology for themselves. In the ensuing chase, Pendleton is accidentaly injected into Jack Putter, instead of the planned lab rabbit.

Assessing the situation, Pendleton navigates his shrunken craft to Jack's brain, connecting to his ear and his optic nerve, thus giving him access to the outside world. Jack, of course, immediately believes he is possessed! Slowly though, he realises what is up, and he and Pendleton begin to formulate a plan to get him out. To do this, they need Lydia's help as a journalist (by telling her that Pendleton is 'in trouble), and they need to get information on the bad guys: Victor Scrimshaw (Kevin McCarthy), Dr Margaret Kanker (Fiona Lewis) and the dreaded Mr Iago (Vernon Wells). They are arranging to sell the technology to a mysterious buyer called The Cowboy (an early role for Star Trek Voyager's Robert Picardo), so the team of three manage to sedate him, take his place, and meet up with the baddies.

They are rumbled and captured, and need to escape, foil the plot, and get Pendleton out. And they are running out of time, because soon he will start growing, and will kill both himself and Jack in the process. The difficulties here are that they need to finally convince Lydia of the real situation, and more importantly, Jack is falling for Lydia in a big way......

Will they get back to the lab in time?

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This movie brings together two other plots into one 90-minute fiesta - The Fantastic Voyage and All Of Me (Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin). Considering the two main characters played by Quaid and Short filmed all of their scenes throughout almost the entire movie separately, the dialogue works very well, and the interplay between them both is more than enough to hold the film together.

Meg Ryan adds to this, playing Lydia in much the same way as her role as Albert Einstein's niece in IQ, with a great mix of intelligence and naivety. And Mr Iago is wonderfully played by Vernon Wells - in fact the entire supporting cast, even down to the smallest roles in the movie, blend together very well indeed.


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Did you know?

Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny animator) has a cameo role as a customer seen in the supermarket queue eating carrots!


The patients in the doctor's waiting room with Jack are played by Andrea Martin and Joe Flaherty, Martin Short's co-stars from "SCTV Channel".

The movie has a repeated rabbit motif running through it, including Tuck's apartment. See how many you can spot!

Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan are shown getting married at a beautiful glass church in the hills (see locations section). Of course, Dennis and Meg are married in real life, too!

If the movie were scientifically possible, then Putter would have been extremely uncomfortable having Tuck inside his body. A miniature Tuck would fit but would have the same mass (same number of molecules) as a full-sized Tuck. Therefore, since Earth's gravity remains constant, Tuck would weigh the same as before. -Thanks to Scott Hume

Geek Alert: The computers in the lab display Apple 2 assembly language listing from the ROM monitor.

The spacecraft is similar to the one in "Explorers", also directed by Joe Dante.

The game show that Martin Short watches is "Scrabble," hosted by Chuck Woolery. It aired on NBC from 1984 to 1990. -Thanks to Jonathan Lim

Actor Robert Picardo who portrayed the 'Cowboy' is best known for his role as the holographic doctor in Star Trek Voyager. He also played one of the freaky alien siblings in the other Joe Dante film, "Explorers". -Thanks to Phantom Planet, Kaga-Esque And Alvin Meenowa

Not an official fact, but in the UK, Innerspace on VHS is a movie that seems guaranteed to be found in any/every used, second-hand or charity shop etc. Not just one, but multiple copies. I think it was issued to every household for free circa 1989! -Thanks to Stefan Andrews

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According to the credits, Martin Short's interiors were produced by Lucasfilm's special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. The same company also produced the "Body Wars" attraction at Epcot at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Featured Movie Location: The glass church used for the wedding
Wanna see the real life filming location used for The glass church used for the wedding in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at Wayfarer's Chapel, located in Rancho Palos Verdes, S. California. [New! Show Google Map]


Other than the church, Innerspace was filmed at locations in San Fransisco, N. California.

The Flower Conservatory in Golden Gate Park [Thanks to Jonathan Lim]

The mall in which the chase scene takes place when Martin Short receives the injection was filmed in the Northridge Fashion Center in Northridge, CA (in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County). The Mall was shut down for a number of months after the Northridge earthquake in 1994; when it reopened, it was completely different. [Thanks to Amy Levine]

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The LP/Cassette soundtrack for the movie includes several renditions of 'Twistin The Night Away', and 'Cupid' by Sam Cooke, as well as some other eigthies tracks by Berlin and Wang Chung. In Europe it is normally available on CD. The CD's are pressed in Germany by Geffen and is distributed by BMG.

The CD contains the following tracks [Thanks to Grzegorz Krolik]:

1. "Twistin' The Night" Away by Rod Stewart
2. "Hypnotize Me" by Wang Chung
3. "Is It Really Love?" by Narada Michael Walden
4. "Will I Ever Understand You" by Berlin
5. "Cupid" by Sam Cooke
6. "Let's Get Small" by Jerry Goldsmith
7. "Environmental Adjust" by Jerry Goldsmith
8. "Space Is A Flop" by Jerry Goldsmith
9. "Gut Reaction" by Jerry Goldsmith
10. "Air Supply" by Jerry Goldsmith

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Innerspace Movie Details
Year:
1987
Studio:
Warner Brothers
Director:
Joe Dante
Starring:
Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Vernon Wells, Robert Picardo, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis
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Genre:
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
  
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