The Incredible Shrinking Woman (PG)
Excruciatingly bad Lily Tomlin comedy.
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- Studio: Universal Studios
- Directed By: Joel Schumacher
- Cast: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin
- Running Time: 88 minutes
- Release Date: 1/30/1981
- Video/DVD Release Date: 7/13/1994
- Genre: Comedy
- MPAA Rating: PG
- MPAA Explanation: Parental Guidance Suggested
Parents need to know
Families can talk about this movie's message. Do many comedies have messages? What, if anything, do you think was the filmmaker's point?
Message
Social Behavior:
Consumerism:
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Violence
A tiny woman falls in a garbage disposal, is nearly ground to death.
Sex
Allusions to the sexual frustrations of being married to a tiny woman.
Language
One or two moderate curses. A cereal box's ingredients, read aloud, include "synthetic spermatozoa" and "bull scrotum."
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Scott G. Mignola
Is it any good?
Lily Tomlin and Charles Grodin never looked more bored in their lives, and the special effects are cheap and completely unconvincing. For family appeal there are a couple of loud, obnoxious kids, and some cutesy stuff with the shrinking woman living in a dollhouse and wearing doll clothes. But if this is a movie for kids, what's with the repeated allusions to the couple's unhappy sex life? What about the gratuitous reading of a cereal box's ingredients, which include "synthetic spermatozoa" and "bull scrotum"?
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