Downsizing (2017)
Directed by Alexander Payne
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
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Writer-director Rian Johnson — who previously displayed wildly inventive storytelling skills in indie classics “Brick” and “The Brothers Bloom” and the Bruce Willis-Joseph Gordon-Levitt showdown “Looper” — takes the reins and creates a film that gives plenty of nods to the past in the first half while turning things upside down in the rousing second half.