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The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Lily Tomlin in an epic comedy (Give or take an inch)

1981 · 1h 28m · PG Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Directed by Joel Schumacher

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After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.

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The film's major difficulty is the screenplay by Jane Wagner.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

What's really incredible is how far this film goes to avoid the ideas, feminist and otherwise, embedded in its premise.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

The Incredible Shrinking Woman is not inane, is sometimes wickedly knowing, and is only periodically boring.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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Good intentions and one's own goodwill are soon diminished as script and direction conspire to render a sitcom satire that's indistinguishable from its target.

Time Out

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