them all by playing with it. Cast Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski, a wacky inventor. Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski, Wayne's wife. Robert Oliveri as Nick Szalinski, Wayne and Diane's teenage son and middle child. Daniel & Joshua Shalikar as Adam Szalinski, Wayne and Diane's two-year-old son and youngest child. Lloyd Bridges as Clifford Sterling, the president of Sterling Labs. John Shea as Dr. Charles Hendrickson, Wayne's insolent coworker. Keri Russell as Mandy Park, Adam's babysitter and Nick's love interest. Ron Canada as U. S. Marshal Preston Brooks Amy O'Neill as Amy Szalinski, Wayne and Diane's daughter and oldest child. Michael Milhoan as Captain Ed Myerson, a military pilot who reluctantly pilots Dr. Hendrickson to confront Adam. Gregory Sierra as Terence Wheeler, a board member at Sterling Labs who is allied with Dr. Hendrickson. Leslie Neale as Constance Winters Linda Carlson as nosy neighbor Julia Sweeney as nosy neighbor Production The film was not originally written as a sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Originally titled Big Baby, it was about a toddler who grew to giant size by a freak accident involving a growth ray and eventually terrorized Las Vegas in a non-violent, yet Godzillaesque way. Disney saw the possibilities of making this into a sequel to the first film and rewrote the script. The main characters from Big Baby became the Szalinski family, but there was no character in the original that Amy Szalinski could replace, so she leaves for college at the beginning of the film and is not seen again. Prior to this, sequel development was offered to screenwriter and teacher David Trottier. Casting Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O'Neill, and Robert Oliveri all return as their respective characters: Wayne, Diane, Amy, and Nick Szalinski. Amy, now a young woman, leaves for her first year of college at the beginning of the film. Nick, while still considered "nerdy", has matured in his personality and takes more interest in girls and guitars. Casting director Renee Rousselot searched over 1,000 small children for someone to portray Adam, the newest addition to the Szalinski clan. She searched for mostly three- to four-year-old boys because a younger child was thought to be problematic. She came across twins Daniel and Joshua Shalikar from New Jersey and immediately cast them in December 1990. One would act in the morning while the other was eating lunch or taking a nap. Baby consultant