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The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Joel Schumacher released in USA on 30 january 1981 with Lily Tomlin

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
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Released in USA 30 january 1981
Length 1h28
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating54% 2.7492452.7492452.7492452.7492452.749245

The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 science fiction/comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher (in his directing debut), written by Jane Wagner and starring Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover and Elizabeth Wilson. This film is a take-off on the 1957 science fiction classic film The Incredible Shrinking Man, and credited as based on Richard Matheson's 1956 novel, The Shrinking Man. The original music score was composed by Suzanne Ciani.

The film was released in pan-and-scan on VHS by Universal on July 13, 1994.
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Synopsis

Pat Kramer of Tasty Meadows is an ordinary suburban housewife and mother of two children. Her husband Vance is an advertising executive. After exposure to an experimental perfume from her husband's company mixed with a multitude of household products and food additives she begins to shrink, gradually at first, then rapidly. A few weeks pass and Pat has shrunk to the height of her own children. Eventually she becomes a celebrity of sorts appearing on The Mike Douglas Show and captures the hearts of the American people.
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Actors

Lily Tomlin

(Pat Kramer / Judith Beasley / Telephone Operator)
Charles Grodin

(Vance Kramer)
Ned Beatty

(Dan Beame)
John Glover

(Tom Keller)
Henry Gibson

(Dr. Eugene Nortz)
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