Robert Lang explores the American “buddy film,” considering the movie Innerspace. This movie is an elaborate anal incorporation fantasy of Tuck into Jack. The film asserts, even as it undercuts the assertion, that healthy masculinity involves the repression of homosexuality and of women. At the end of the movie Jack is cured of his unmasculine fears through identification with Tuck, even after Tuck has left his body re-enlarged. Until Tuck gains a sense of the body he is inhabiting, he does not exist as a subject. As Jack comes to realize that Tuck has been injected into him, he becomes the divided subject of psychoanalysis as described by Lacan. In the imaginative fantasy Tuck briefly enters into the body of a woman from which he must return, indicating the mediation of the female body as a receptacle, not by identity. The film departs from the genre of the American buddy film by no longer denying that male homosocial desire is a continuum including homosexuality.