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7. The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Starring Lily Tomlin and Charles Grodin, this subversive family classic centers on a nearly robotic, suburban housewife, Pat, who approaches her daily-grind life, screaming kids and a self-involved peppy ad-exec husband with a constant plastered smile as she fades into the background...literally...and soon becomes known as the "incredible shrinking woman" to her neighbors, when doctors and experts alike can't quite explain, save blaming a bizarre mix of chemicals, why she's losing inches and pounds by the day. Soon, Pat becomes an experiment at a shady laboratory, promising her hope, where her only friend who can save her from their clutches, arrives in the form of--you guessed it, an ape.
Why It Ruled: The perhaps the most fake man-suited ape you've seen in a movie, the noise-making, chest-beating gorilla fits in with the order of Pat's upside-down, mockery of a universe. Cheesy and just right--it is a 1981 comedy after all!
Monkeymeter: 3.5 out of 5 stars