The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 science fiction comedy from first time director Joel Schumacher. The film is a take off the 1957 film "The Incredible Shrinking Man", and is credited to Richard Matheson's 1956 novel "The Shrinking Man" and stars Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, and Sally Kirkland. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.