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Downsizing

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    • Alexander Payne
      In Alexander Payne

      …science fiction with the satire Downsizing (2017), which he also cowrote. It starred Matt Damon as a man who undergoes a medical procedure that causes him to shrink and received scant critical praise. In 2023 Payne directed The Holdovers, a comedy-drama set in a New England boarding school during the…

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    • Damon
      • Matt Damon
        In Matt Damon: Later credits

        …other credits from 2017 included Downsizing, a sci-fi satire in which he portrayed a man who undergoes a medical procedure that causes him to shrink. Damon made cameos in such films as Deadpool 2 in 2018. The following year he starred with Christian Bale in Ford v Ferrari, a drama…

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    • Waltz
      • Christoph Waltz
        In Christoph Waltz

        …drama Tulip Fever and in Downsizing, a satire about people who elect to undergo a medical procedure that causes them to shrink. Two years later he appeared in Alita: Battle Angel. Also in 2019 Waltz directed his first feature film, Georgetown, a crime drama in which he starred as a…

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