Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
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Directed by	Randal Kleiser
Produced by	Dawn Steel Edward S. Feldman
Screenplay by	Garry Goodrow Thom Eberhardt Peter Elbling
Story by	Garry Goodrow
Based on	Characters by: Stuart Gordon Brian Yuzna Ed Naha
Starring	Rick Moranis Marcia Strassman Lloyd Bridges Robert Oliveri John Shea
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Cinematography	John Hora
Edited by	Harry Hitner
Production company	Walt Disney Pictures
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date	July 17, 1992 (1992-07-17)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Box office	$76 million

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 American comedy science fiction film and the sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri and Amy O'Neill, who reprise their roles as Wayne, Diane, Nick, and Amy Szalinski respectively, as well as newcomer Keri Russell as Mandy Park, Nick's love interest and babysitter of Adam, the Szalinskis' new two-year-old son, whose accidental exposure to Wayne's new industrial-sized growth machine causes him to gradually grow to enormous size. Made only three years after Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, this film is set five years after the events depicted in the previous film. It was filmed in 1990.

The antagonist to the Szalinskis is Dr. Charles Hendrickson (John Shea), who wants the giant Adam stopped at all costs and would like to take over Wayne's invention that is now owned by the major corporation they work for, which is in turn owned by the kind Clifford Sterling (Lloyd Bridges).

This film would be followed by one last sequel in 1997, this time a direct-to-video film, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. A TV show would also follow the film in 1997, called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Five years after inventor Wayne Szalinski shrunk his children, his family have moved to Nevada, and welcomed a new son, mischievous two-year old Adam. Wayne’s wife Diane leaves with their daughter Amy for college, leaving Wayne to look after Adam and their teenage son Nick, who struggles with puberty. He develops a crush on Mandy Park, who Wayne later arranges to babysit Adam. Wayne takes his sons to Sterling Labs, where he has constructed a device which could make objects grow. He tests it out on Adam’s toy Big Bunny. However, when Wayne and Nick’s backs are turned, Adam retrieves his toy and is zapped by the machine.