We all have his face in our memory, he has given us hours of happiness and his films remain in our memory, but what happened to rick moranis? The mythical actor of ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ retired for a touching reason.
Rick Moranis’ career began in 1980 on ‘Second City TV’, a series made up of sketches from which comedians such as Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis and John Candy also came out. Together with Dave Thomas, he directed and starred in ‘Strange Brew’ (1983), a film that exploited two of the show’s best-known characters.
His comic vision began to attract attention among many colleagues, so Ramis decided to count on him for the great project in which he was involved, the magnificent ‘Los ghostbusters’ (Ivan Reitman, 1984).
From that moment on, he was one of the recurring faces of eighties comedy, participating in titles such as ‘The Great Waste’ (Walter Hill, 1985), ‘Club Paraíso’ (Harold Ramis, 1986), the essential musical remake ‘Shop of Horrors’ (Frank Oz, 1986) (available on HBO Max), ‘The crazy story of galaxies’ (Mel Brooks, 1987), ‘Ghostbusters II’ (Ivan Reitman, 1989) or ‘Sweet home… sometimes!’ (Ron Howard, 1989), many of which are among the 50 best movies of the 80s according to IMDb.
In 1989, he starred in the film that would transfer him forever to the collective imagination, the fun family comedy ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Children’ (Joe Johnston) (available on Disney +), which would be followed by two minor sequels, ‘Honey, I have enlarged the child’ (Randal Kleiser, 1992) and ‘Honey, we have shrunk ourselves’ (Dean Cundey, 1997).
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Then, His family situation had already taken a tragic turn when, in 1991, his wife died of breast cancer. With two small children, whom he protects to the point of never having revealed his name, the actor decided to choose projects that would be shot only in his city or, if he had to travel, that the production would take place during the Summer Vacation.
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For a time, he combined his career as best he could, shooting the two sequels of the careless scientist with the sizes and other hits such as ‘The Flintstones’ (Brian Levant, 1994) (available in the Netflix film catalog), ‘Little Giants’ ( Duwayne Dunham, 1994) or ‘My dear enemy’ (Steve Miner, 1996), but In 1997 he decided to take an interpretive break that has lasted until today..
He has not stopped working, but always within New York to raise his children as a father with a stable job. This has allowed him to provide the voice for different characters, such as Rutt in ‘Brother Bear’ (Aaron Blaise, Bob Walker, 2003), record humorous records, write comic editorials and take his first steps in radio advertising.
As he commented in an interview with THR In 2015, with his children well grown, he had gone back to looking at scripts looking for something interesting and, finally, it seems that he is returning to the big screen.
“Honey, I’m back,” wrote the actor on his Twitter account, confirming that he will become Wayne Szalinski again in ‘Shrunk’, the fourth installment of ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ to be directed by Joe Johnston and in which he will co-star alongside Josh Gad.
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