Downsizing

Downsizing

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Matt Damon realises his life would be better were he to shrink himself in this social satire co-written and directed by two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Alexander Payne (Nebraska). More

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 realise how much further money goes in a miniaturised world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek (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.

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47 ^%Rotten
tomatoes®
8 reviews
Directed by Alexander Payne

2017Rating: M, Drug use, offensive language & nudity135 minsUSA

ComedyDrama

Director:: Alexander Payne ('Nebraska', 'Sideways', 'About Schmidt')
Writer:: Alexander PayneJim Taylor
Cast:: Matt DamonKristen WiigChristoph WaltzJason SudeikisMargo MartindaleAlec BaldwinNeil Patrick HarrisJoaquim De Almeida

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Downsizing | Reviews

47%302 reviews

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Flicks, Liam Maguren

Oscar winner Alexander Payne’s eco-comedy has a great sci-fi concept that provokes immediate thoughts about waste management, the current state of climate change, and the human race’s own (in)ability to change. The first half hour of Downsizing does a sterling job building this near-future world where shrinking the population is not only possible, it’s beneficial to the environment AND your bank account. After that, however, the story becomes more and more like Matt Damon’s character – confused and aimless.

Variety

The most whimsically outlandish film of Payne's career, though that doesn't mean it's made with anything less than his usual highly thought-out and controlled master-craftsman bravura.

Vanity Fair

Goes soft and strangely condescending on us, coming within perilous distance of white-saviour tradition as Damon becomes the change he'd like to see in the new world.

Time Out

Lost up its own minuscule navel, Downsizing is a film that gets around to a toothless variation on "size doesn't matter," but Payne ought to know that's the most boring idea imaginable, big or small.

The Times

A sci-fi comedy satire that purports to be about environmentalism and the end of the American consumer dream, but is actually about something much more intimate, and simultaneously more expansive.

The Guardian

What a spry, nuanced, winningly digressive movie this is.

Stuff

The film meanders rather than drives to a conclusion – a loose parody of a doomsday drama I guess – before ending on an uncertain note of redemption.

Hollywood Reporter

Captivating, funny and possessed of a surprise-filled zig-zag structure that makes it impossible to anticipate where it's headed, this is a deeply humane film that, like the best Hollywood classics, feels both entirely of its moment and timeless.

FilmInk

...interesting, but a missed opportunity for something grander.

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Downsizing | Release Details

Downsizing is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.