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Downsizing

  • 2017
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Matt Damon in Downsizing (2017)
'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.
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Une satire sociale dans laquelle un homme se rend compte que sa vie serait meilleure s'il mesurait 12 cm, lui permettant de vivre dans la richesse et la splendeur.Une satire sociale dans laquelle un homme se rend compte que sa vie serait meilleure s'il mesurait 12 cm, lui permettant de vivre dans la richesse et la splendeur.Une satire sociale dans laquelle un homme se rend compte que sa vie serait meilleure s'il mesurait 12 cm, lui permettant de vivre dans la richesse et la splendeur.

  • Réalisation
    • Alexander Payne
  • Scénario
    • Alexander Payne
    • Jim Taylor
  • Casting principal
    • Matt Damon
    • Christoph Waltz
    • Hong Chau
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  • NOTE IMDb
    5,8/10
    133 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Alexander Payne
    • Scénario
      • Alexander Payne
      • Jim Taylor
    • Casting principal
      • Matt Damon
      • Christoph Waltz
      • Hong Chau
    • 1.1Kavis d'utilisateurs
    • 359avis des critiques
    • 64Métascore
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 victoire et 16 nominations au total

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    Matt Damon
    Matt Damon
    • Paul Safranek
    Christoph Waltz
    Christoph Waltz
    • Dusan Mirkovic
    Hong Chau
    Hong Chau
    • Ngoc Lan Tran
    Kristen Wiig
    Kristen Wiig
    • Audrey Safranek
    Rolf Lassgård
    Rolf Lassgård
    • Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen
    Ingjerd Egeberg
    • Anne-Helene Asbjørnsen
    Udo Kier
    Udo Kier
    • Konrad
    Søren Pilmark
    Søren Pilmark
    • Dr. Andreas Jacobsen
    Jason Sudeikis
    Jason Sudeikis
    • Dave Johnson
    Maribeth Monroe
    Maribeth Monroe
    • Carol Johnson
    Jayne Houdyshell
    Jayne Houdyshell
    • Paul's Mother
    Phil Reeves
    Phil Reeves
    • Audrey's Dad Larry
    James Van Der Beek
    James Van Der Beek
    • Anesthesiologist
    Alison J. Palmer
    • Anesthesiologist's Wife
    Tim Driscoll
    • Good Friend Tim
    • (as Timothy Edmund Driscoll)
    Kristen Thomson
    Kristen Thomson
    • Good Friend Gina
    Kevin Kunkel
    • Buddy Kevin
    • (as Kevin Patrick Kunkel)
    Patrick Gallagher
    Patrick Gallagher
    • Drunk Guy at Bar
    • Réalisation
      • Alexander Payne
    • Scénario
      • Alexander Payne
      • Jim Taylor
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    5kmegal

    I saw potential, but trailer was misleading to me...

    After seeing the trailer and prior to that not knowing a thing about this movie, I took the wife last night. I loved the concept and saw many funny people (Kristin Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, among others) in the trailer and thought it would be fun. While I wouldn't say it was a bad movie, it was SLOW and really didn't provide many laughs. Seemed to be another movie trying to push down an agenda regarding global warming and conservation rather than being a fun escape for 2 hours. If you like the actors, you might like the movie, but if you're expecting something with a comedic slant, I'd say you'll be disappointed.
    6longcooljolie

    Excellent first half but goes off the rails quickly after

    This came up on my Prime feed for watching after a hard day of work.

    At first, the concept was intriguing and compelling. Solve some of the worlds problems with overpopulation and resource straining by allowing people to be "downsized" to approximately 5 inches, or roughly the same size as an action hero doll. There is even a "Truman" style all-encompassing village for them all to live in luxury in downsized mansions that would fit onto a real life dining table.

    The leads, Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig, are always bankable for bringing interesting characters to life, and the whole downsizing process for Matt Damon is breathtaking. That all happens in roughly the first half of the movie, but things go downhill fast after Christoph Waltz enters the picture as Matt Damon's obnoxious upstairs neighbor.

    First off, earlier scenes show the Matt Damon character, "Paul" taking up residence in one of the Lilliputian mansions with his own yard around it. However, he later appears to live in some type of highrise with elevators without any explanation of why he moved (or maybe I missed it).

    By the time the Paul character helps an Asian refugee and ends up visiting the "slum" of the small people neighborhoods to help a disadvantaged small person, I found myself clicking on the screen to see how much of the movie was left. Forty-five minutes? Ugh.

    So chalk it up to bad execution or bad scriptwriting, but to me there's little wonder why the movie failed massively at the box office, reaping only a fraction of its production costs, bloated because of the breathtaking special effects from the first half. Eventually, I may see the final 45 minutes since Prime allows you to pick up where you left off, but I certainly won't go out of my way to do it!
    7AlsExGal

    I feel almost alone in the world in liking this satirical sci-fi comedy-drama

    When Norwegian scientists develop a means to shrink living things down to miniature size, with the average human standing only 5 inches tall, the world sees it as great new opportunity. "Downsized" people use less resources, take up less space, and have a smaller impact on the environment. As an added bonus, their "full-size" bank accounts translate to vastly more wealth at smaller size, since less material is needed to build dream mansions or create fabulous jewelry. Within a decade, "downsized" towns are springing up around the world, and middle-class Nebraskans Paul (Matt Damon) and Audrey (Kristen Wiig) make the decision to join the "little people". However, when complications ensue, Paul finds his worldview shattered, and he's left looking for new direction in his life.

    Director Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska) has a knack for character and the human condition. This movie, easily his biggest budgeted effort due to the special effects involved, loses a little of that thanks to the film's ambitions and the overreaching scope of the story. Payne seems to making some points about the lengths people will go to in hopes of achieving the upper class dream of many Americans, with the big house and country club aesthetics. Payne also spends time on the danger of climate change, and the last section of the film takes this to apocalyptic levels. Whether he's exaggerating for effect, comic or otherwise, he doesn't make clear, but it's also possible that he's being sincere in his fears. Damon serves his purpose well, as he's called on mainly to be a blank slate, a rather empty man looking for meaning in the world.

    The stand-out performances are from Christopher Waltz as Damon's obnoxious neighbor, and especially Hong Chau as a one-legged Vietnamese former political dissident turned janitorial worker. She's phenomenal, and should have nabbed a supporting Oscar nomination. The movie was a flop with both critics and the box office, but I liked it, and continue to look forward to Payne's work.
    7benavidessaavedra

    Very human story

    Hong Chau performance was amazing, the story was universal and went beyond the science Fiction touching that human part we all hide inside. Truly enjoyed this film, felt it very human.
    JohnDeSando

    Sci-fi comedy with a social bite. Fun and deeper than you'd think.

    The easiest part to get of writer/director Alexander Payne's sci-fi comedy, Downsizing, is the allegory of shrinking ourselves and our possessions to miniature to save the planet from our excess yet become miniature plutocrats in the process. The more challenging part is to understand how he can pack climate change and economic decay also into his themes.

    Paul (Matt Damon), an occupational therapist who at best is just a nice guy, and his ambitious wife, Audrey (Kristen Wiig), decide to have a richer life by downsizing, but contrary to our conventional use of that term. To shrink means to have a bigger miniature mansion, the kind he couldn't afford in a regular size that his shrinking paycheck keeps him from. Of course, in his decision to help out the planet, he is really helping to mitigate his envy of his richer friends in their McMansions.

    Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor deftly move the Twilight-Zone story into a melodrama that stresses the humanity of a man who forsakes family and friends for a seemingly higher purpose such as saving the environment. However, it still comes back to greed.

    At least until Paul experiences caring for those less fortunate than he, for those shrunk but still with relatively nothing, viz., the poor, the immigrant, and the sick to name a few disadvantaged souls living in a ghetto-tenement world far from the eyes of the advantaged. Once Paul witnesses real poverty he can never turn back to his truly shrunken life of excess and worthlessness.

    Where Payne veers from the staples of his drama is bringing in an apocalyptic climate change, a danger not even appearing earlier. More than that misplaced motif is that he has nicely set up already the humanity that will save Paul, who must choose between survival and being together for however long with the ones he truly loves.

    Downsizing is rare, a comedy in sci-fi mode with a toolbox of social concerns. It's a child of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with a Twilight Zone spirit, and it's a pleasant holiday diversion.

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      When Matt Damon's character, Paul, pulls up to his new downsized home, his driver says; 'welcome to the good life". Paul makes a face in response. "The good life" is the state motto of Nebraska, the home he had just left.
    • Gaffes
      While the Norwegian colony might not have needed a dome to protect them from mosquitoes and birds, other full-size animals would be able to get in. Also, full-size raindrops would be deadly to downsized people. More even if someone said they did not have insects because to close to the sea, we saw a dragonfly when they entered the village and also butterflies later (big ones !). And what about the waves? They live just by the water, any mild waves would shattered the pier. And what about snow that would cover them in minutes.
    • Citations

      Ngoc Lan Tran: Other night on boat, what kind of fuck you give me?

      Paul Safranek: What?

      Ngoc Lan Tran: What kind of fuck you give me?

      Paul Safranek: What kind? I don't...

      Ngoc Lan Tran: American people, eight kind of fuck. Love fuck, hate fuck, sex-only fuck, break-up fuck, make-up fuck, drunk fuck, buddy fuck, pity fuck.

    • Crédits fous
      The first half of the end credits feature the camera zooming out from the chest outward of Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing Vitruvian Man.
    • Versions alternatives
      There is a special version (probably edited for nudity and language) that can be found on television.
    • Connexions
      Featured in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Matt Damon/Rahm Emanuel/Juanes (2017)
    • Bandes originales
      Suite No. 2 in B Minor for Flute - Badinerie
      Written by Johann Sebastian Bach

      Courtesy of Extreme Music

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    • Date de sortie
      • 10 janvier 2018 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
      • Norvège
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    • Langues
      • Anglais
      • Espagnol
      • Norvégien
      • Français
      • Coréen
      • Grec
      • Vietnamien
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Pequeña gran vida
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Trollfjord, Lofoten, Norvège
    • Sociétés de production
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Ad Hominem Enterprises
      • Gran Via Productions
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    • Budget
      • 68 000 000 $US (estimé)
    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 24 449 754 $US
    • Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 4 954 287 $US
      • 24 déc. 2017
    • Montant brut mondial
      • 55 003 890 $US
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      2 heures 15 minutes
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