Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Release Date

1989

Director

  • Joe Johnston

Cast

  • Rick Moranis
  • Amy O'Neill
  • Kristine Sutherland

An absent-minded inventor leaves his latest creation, a shrinking ray, unattended. After his children find it, the newly tiny youngsters are tossed out with the trash and must navigate the long journey across the lawn to make it home.

When kids sneak into inventor Wayne Szalinski's (Rick Moranis) upstairs lab to retrieve an errant baseball, his experimental shrink ray miniaturizes them. When Szalinski returns home, he destroys the device— which he thinks is a failure—and dumps it in the trash, throwing out the kids along with it. The four children, now 1/4-inch tall, must survive the journey back to the house through a yard where sprinklers bring treacherous storms and garden-variety ants stampede like elephants.

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Past Programs

2018

2020

SoS Jr.: Nanotechnology

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA