Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following this plot. Lieut. Tuck Pendelton (Dennis Quaid), a right- stuff pilot, volunteers for a Silicon Valley experiment in which he will be placed in a space capsule, miniaturized and inserted into a rabbit's body. But rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards...
...standard give-and-get of movie fiction: two men of polar-opposite dispositions share their strengths and become one indomitable hero. Tuck gives Jack guts; Jack gives Tuck humanity. The old switcheroo has a nice impact, but the film's most intelligent pleasures come from the filigree work. Dante packs his movie as if it were the knapsack of a ten-year-old running away from home -- with comic-book notions, weird windup toys and a quartet of villains as grotesquely giddy as the Garbage Pail Kids...
...establishing motives and motifs, Dante goes productively crazy. Is Tuck to be stuck in a rabbit? Then there will be hares everywhere: mechanical bunnies in Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through...
Indeed, Innerspace plays as if it were the hippest Martin-and-Lewis comedy. Tuck is the boozer-crooner-loverboy; Jack is the engaging, zany nerd. Both actors have nifty fun updating these roles. Quaid, flashing the satanic grin patented by Jack Nicholson, ensures that Tuck makes a convincing connection with a friend he cannot embrace until the end of the movie. And Short, late of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, is one deft darling. Jack begins as a wild paranoiac but soon straightens up and loosens up, especially in a maniacal boogie he performs to Sam Cooke's Twistin...
...number of middle-income Americans looking southward for doctoring grows, so does the demand for sophisticated services. Mexican plastic surgeons are now in big demand. Reason: a face-lift or tummy tuck south of the Rio Grande costs about 40% of what it does in the U.S. "An operation that typically costs $5,000 in the U.S. can be had for about $2,000 here," says Dr. Jorge Lopez y Garcia, a plastic surgeon from Mexico City. Lopez, a graduate of the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University Medical Center, flies to Nuevo Laredo twice a month...