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Shrunk

Shrunk poster
Directed by
Joe Johnston
Country
United States

How it feels

A struggling inventor named Wayne Szalinski accidentally shrinks his kids with a ray gun. The family must work together to survive the dangers of their own backyard.

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What happens

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is an American science fiction comedy media franchise, based on a concept created by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, and an original story co-written by Gordon, Yuzna, and Ed Naha. The franchise focuses around the Szalinski family, particularly the father, Wayne Szalinski, who is a struggling inventor whose inventions unintentionally cause trouble and mishaps. The first installment, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), and its subsequent financial and critical success, led to two sequels and a television series; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992), Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997), and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–2000), respectively. A fourth film titled Shrunk entered production in 2019 and is in development limbo. This continued in 1999 when the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids films, along with a number of other Disney film series, were combined into a franchise as a part of Disney Parks' attractions where elements from each movie were included. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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