Alexander Payne’s most whimsical film yet, ‘Downsizing,’ is a modest ecocritical work that oscillates between multiple themes while seldom maintaining the focus needed to investigate any which one
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.
Kristen Wiig will replace Reese Witherspoon in the upcoming film Downsizing, after Witherspoon was forced to withdraw due to scheduling conflicts.