‘Downsizing’ Teaser: Alexander Payne Invites You To Leisure Land
Life looks different at five inches tall.
As the quirky comedy starringMatt Damongears up for a wide release after its successful festival circuit, Paramount has released another look at life on the small side for the characters inAlexander Payne’sDownsizing.
Downsizing Teaser
Paramount touts this clip as “an exclusive look,” but it’s more like another miniature (heh) trailer with some new footage of Matt Damon andKristen Wiig’s new home, Leisure Land, after they have undergone the “permanent, irreversible” procedure that shrinks them to the side of a box of crackers. Fittingly, crackers are the first thing that Damon’s character Paul tries after his surgery, awed by the large size of the snack.
Paul and his wife Audrey (Wiig) learn that their $100,000 in the real world translates to $12 million in Leisure Land, allowing them to live in life of luxury in their new, smaller town — but one that houses three Cheesecake Factories! Something’s amiss though, as the on-the-nose trailer song of Talking Head’s “Once in a Lifetime” plays in the background. But darned if this new teaser will tell you what that is.
Downsizing,directed bySidewaysandThe Descendentsdirector Alexander Payne, premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier this summer tofairly positive buzz, with many calling it a “witty” high-concept comedy held up by a stellar cast./Film’s Marshall Shaffer’s reviewofDownsizingfrom the Toronto International Film Festival called it an exercise in sincerity, saying:
Here’s the official synopsis forDownsizing, which also starsChristoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Neil Patrick Harris, Hong Chau, Laura Dern,andNancy Niesh:
When scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to overpopulation, Paul (Matt Damon) and his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life-changing adventures.
