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The Straitjacket Lottery (2004)
Very similar to a short story
The plot of this movie is very similar to a short story by Gabriel Garicia Marquez called 'I Only Came to Use the Phone.' A woman whose car has broken down hitches a ride on a mental hospital bus. When she arrives at the asylum to call her boyfriend, the doctors mistake her for a patient and lock her up. The driver is gone and no one can vouch for her. After several months she finally manages to make a phone call, but her boyfriend thinks she had dumped him and hangs up. When she finally manages to write him, he shows up at the hospital, but thinks she really is a mental patient and won't help her. Possibly the most depressing story I've ever read.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
The horror, the horror!
Okay, my students laughed at me when I admitted this, but this film scared the living hell out of me! Granted, I was only five when I saw it, but that scene where Tomlin falls down the garbage disposal and the housekeeper can't hear her screams because she's listening to loud music...I ran out of the theater when that happened! Looking back, the plot was rather hokey and they relied too much on Tomlin's star power. Still, the special effects were okay for the time. The commentary of our consumerist society didn't work as well. It may be worth a watch on cable, but to this day I can't even watch 9 to 5 without whimpering. 'Galaxy Glue, Galaxy Glue, what would we do without Galaxy Glue?'