Innerspace

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This article is about the movie Innerspace. See Operation: Inner Space for the game by SDI.

Template:Infobox Film Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was based around a spoof of the 1966 sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Martin Short, and Kevin McCarthy with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Goofs
4 External links

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Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jack Putter (Martin Short) is a hypochondriac who begins to hear voices in his head. He later discovers the reason: A top-secret miniaturization experiment has gone wrong. Hotshot pilot Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has been placed into a submarine and miniaturized to microscopic size; he has been accidentally injected into Jack's "inner space."

The movie's plot has been criticized as silly, but it has won praise for its special effects, which because of improvements in effects technology are more sophisticated than those in Fantastic Voyage.

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Trivia

The computers in the lab display Apple II assembly language listing from the ROM monitor.
The filmmakers used two different shopping malls for the scene where the doctor injects Tuck into Jack's rear. The opening scenes where the doctor runs in and heads for the elevator were shot in the Northridge Mall in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles (also the epicenter of the '94 quake). The scene where he reaches the top and rams the syringe into Jack was filmed on the top floor of the Sherman Oaks Galleria, another mall several miles away.
After Scrimshaw and Canker are shrunk 50%, there are a few scenes where they are seen with full-size actors. These shots were actually filmed using forced perspective. For the car scene, the rear of the car is actually twice as large as a normal car rear, and was about 20 feet away. During the scene half size hands and double-size heads were used. Using this method, the film-makers didn't have to worry about compositing two separate shots in post production, so the shots could be completed quicker. Even in the final scene with the suitcase, the case was twice as large, but the hand that closes it was real, closer to the camera in sync with the closing. (It took about 20 takes before it was perfect.)
During the Cowboy/Putter changeover, Robert Picardo had to do quite a bit of work. After Putter has been changed, we see Lydia asking how he got into the room etc... The first time Robert goes off screen he's actually rushing behind camera, tearing off his breakaway clothes and getting into the bath. A make-up assistant is behind a fake wall at the head of the bath, having just changed the Putter Wig to the Cowboy one. Before the Scrimshaw meeting, Picardo's voice was over-dubbed with Short's. During the meeting, Picardo used his own voice (with a Short-esque lilt) as the film-makers didn't think Short 'trying' the Cowboys voice would be convincing enough to make the scene work.
An intentional or accidental homage is paid to an earlier sci-fi film, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). In that earlier film, William Schallert plays the part of Dr. Bramson, a family physician who examines the protagonist, Scott Carey. In Innerspace, Schallert plays Dr. Greenbush, the physician who examines Jack Putter.
This was the first film commercially released in Dolby Stereo "Spectral Recording" (SR). SR is a vastly improved noise reduction system which replaced Dolby's original "A-type" noise reduction used for decades in all professional analog recording mediums (including all previous Dolby Stereo movies).

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Goofs

Tuck should not have been able to see Jack's entire eyeball from the eye socket.
When Jack turns away from the mirror the picture in Tuck's pod should have turned with Jack's head, instead it stayed looking at Jack in the mirror.
State of Tuck's decorations after being beaten up in the kitchen.

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