MC Chris Presents Honey I Shrunk the Kids at the Alamo

Still from the film

MC Chris presents: HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS
Monday, October 27, 11:59pm
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)
$10 general admission
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In these stressful times when Wall Street suddenly seems to think it’s playing golf and trying to get those numbers even lower, it might be a good time to have a little distraction--something to take your mind off of the dwindling status of the dollar. Why not flashback to those golden Reagan Years everyone keeps talking about?

Tonight at midnight, nerdcore rapper and Adult Swim staple MC Chris presents the Walt Disney classic Honey I Shrunk the Kids, starring Rick Moranis (in his finest performance since Ghostbusters--yeah, that’s right Parenthood, we’re calling you out!), as absent-minded scientist-type who accidentally—do we really have to say it?--shrunk his kids.

If you need to know more, you’re either under 15 and midnight is past your bedtime or your kids were already “all growns up” in the eighties and so you can’t stay awake that late anyway. But for those recently converted Amish types, here’s the film in a nutshell: kids almost drowning in a bowl of giant cheerios, kids riding ants like horses, apocalyptic lawn mowers cutting down blades of grass the size of redwoods. You get the idea. They’re shrunk!

We can’t figure out how this couldn’t be the awesomest thing to do tonight. If you’re downtown (say, perhaps, if you went to MC Chris’ show at Red 7 earlier in the evening), head over to the Alamo, order a drink, and get ready for the biggest small adventure ever. It might be just the thing you’re looking for to take your mind off the Dow. Hey, you can always go home and watch the politicians play “Honey We Shrunk the Economy” on Jon Stewart tomorrow.