Mary and Max (2009), The Devil Doll (1936), Dr. Cyclops (1940), Babes in Toyland (1961), Downsizing (2017), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), Little John (2001), Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Shrinking movies.
Storyline: In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, an overweight man with Asperger's, living alone in New York. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?
Plot Keywords: girl, australian, new yorker, charming, suburbs, new york city, shrinking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: innocent man, scientist, widow, daughter, son-in-law, assistant, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.—Steve Hill <shill@harper.cc.il.us>
Plot Keywords: biologist, scientist, doctor, professor, servant, chilling, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo Peep, thus depriving Mary and the children she lives with of their livelihood, forcing her to marry Barnaby. The sheep are stolen, but Gonzorgo and Roderigo, Barnaby's henchmen, double-cross him by selling Tom to a band of gypsies instead, leaving Tom with the opportunity to escape and make his way with Mary, Bo-Peep, and other Mother Goose characters to Toyland.—Albert Sanchez Moreno <a.moreno@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: heiress, fiancé, mastermind, goon, toy maker, assistant, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A new world of possibilities awaits, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure known as Downsizing. Billed as environmentally-friendly, many people choose to downsize for economic benefits. When the kindly occupational therapist, Paul, undergoes the new procedure, finding himself in this brand-new existence, he must choose between a sheltered life or making an impact in his own small way. Can he help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time?
Plot Keywords: therapist, husband, wife, scientist, neighbor, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.—Dave Smith <dave@stat.colostate.edu>
Plot Keywords: housewife, husband, son, daughter, businessman, lab worker, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a foreign researcher, who got captured mistakenly by police for stealing a valuable ornament from a temple in India, desperately tries to escape from police by taking the help of the Swamiji of the temple, bizarre things happen to him.—Samuel Tatipamula (samueliitg.ep@gmail.com)
Plot Keywords: student, shaman, young woman, father, mother, caretaker, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny. Now, whenever Adam comes near anything electrical, the electricity causes him to grow. Adam soon starts to grow to the height of over 100 feet. And he is now walking through Las Vegas which he thinks is one big play land.
Plot Keywords: scientist, wife, baby, doctor, babysitter, madcap, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a community near a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes him. Later, the cuckold Dave Walker finds his slut wife Liz Walker cheating on him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp, and forces them to jump into the water. The leeches take them and shocked Dave is arrested and accused of murder. Two other locals decide to look for the bodies of Liz and Cal to get the prize of US $50.00 per body, and also vanish in the swamp. Finally, game warden Steve Benton organizes a patrol to investigate the caves under the swamp, finding the lethal giant leeches.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: mad scientist, secretary, boyfriend, prisoner, boss, striking, wild ...
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