Film
Downsizing
- Director
- Alexander Payne
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 135 mins
How to solve the problem of over-population? Here’s one solution: shrink people. Sideways and The Descendants director Alexander Payne‘s clever Swiftian satire is set in a world where boffins have perfected a technique to reduce people to just five inches tall. There’s only one catch: they can never be embiggened again.
Stressed out occupational therapist Matt Damon and his wife Kristen Wiig are hooked by the utopian promise of the Leisureland planned community, where little people live an idyllic life and everything is dirt cheap. What happens next is best not revealed here, suffice it to say that it proves life-changing in ways that were not anticipated. Go here for our full review.
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