Honey I Shrunk the Kids 🎥 1989 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Scientist and inventor Wayne Szalinski has been designing an energy-projecting machine intended to shrink and grow objects, but it instead explodes them. Wayne has yet to figure out how to fix it, and his obsession with the machine worries his hardworking wife, realtor Diane, 15-year-old teenage daughter Amy, and 11-year-old aspiring inventor son Nick. Next door, Big Russ Thompson, his wife Mae, and their 12-year-old younger son Ron are preparing for a fishing trip. Their 15-year-old elder son, Little Russ Thompson, is less than enthusiastic, as his interests often clash with his father’s.

Shortly after Wayne leaves for a conference, Ron accidentally hits a baseball through the Szalinski’s attic window and into the machine, turning it on and blocking its targeting laser which fortuitously fixes the shrinking function. Caught by his brother, Ron is forced to confess to Amy and Nick. Ron and Nick enter the attic in an attempt to retrieve the ball, but the machine shrinks them. Amy and Little Russ later suffer the same fate when they go searching for their siblings. At his conference, Wayne is laughed off the stage for failing to provide proof that his machine works. He enters the attic upon returning home; the shrunken children try to get his attention, but their voices are only loud enough to be heard by the family dog, Quark.

Already frustrated, Wayne discovers the broken window and snaps, repeatedly striking the machine. He sweeps the debris, along with the kids, into a dustpan and a trash bag. The four manage to escape, only to discover that the trash bag is now at the curb; they make their way back home through the Szalinski’s overgrown yard. While trying to get back, they have a harrowing encounter with a bee, which separates them. Meanwhile, the Thompson and Szalinski parents become uneasy at their children’s absence.

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