The world is a massive, intimidating place, and trying to navigate it all is a seemingly impossible task. Don’t you could just shrink down, and hide away from the big bad world? Well leave it to the magic of the movies to present that scenario for you as Alexander Payne’s newest film – DOWNSIZING – imagines a world where you can shrink down to the size of rat and live like a king. The first trailer is here, and if the cast doesn’t leave a smile on your face, then perhaps the idea of living in Barbie’s Malibu Dreamhouse will. The pink Corvette is sold separately.
Here is the plot synopsis:
Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200-year global transition from big to small. People soon realize how much further money goes in a miniaturized world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in Omaha in order to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life-changing adventures.
DOWNSIZING with Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis and Christoph Waltz arrives December 22.