- When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get revenge on her cheating husband and those who annoyed her.
- Young heiress Nancy Archer is beautiful, wealthy - the kind of woman who has everything, and she's has become very angry. Her mean-spirited father wants control of the business, and her cheating husband, Harry, only wants her for the money. After driving home from shouting at Harry, Nancy wants to fight back, but she lacks the confidence until she runs into an alien spaceship. At first, no one believes her crazy story; however, Harry sees the opportunity to have his wife certified insane like her mother. But something has happened to Nancy since her encounter with aliens that zap her with some kind of laser without warning. As a result, Nancy finds herself growing to giant size every time she gets angry and becomes more self-confident and strong-willed. Her incredible anger makes her 50 feet tall and she's now a walking giantess searching in a terrified town for her husband who is with his mistress.—HBO Home Video
- The film begins by following a tour group at a memorial museum dedicated to Nancy Archer (Daryl Hannah). The patrons were shown a film with Dr. Victor Loeb (Paul Benedict), who explains that the events surrounding Nancy Archer were true. Nancy was an heiress to her mother's fortune. Her father, Hamilton Cobb (William Windom), hopes to use the money to gain control over the town they live in. Nancy sees her psychiatrist, Dr. Theodora Cushing (Frances Fisher), about her low self-esteem and bad marriage to Harry Archer (Daniel Baldwin). Her husband frequently spends time with a beautiful mistress, Honey Parker (Cristi Conaway), the town beautician, together with whom he discusses his plans to steal the family's business away from Nancy's father. Despite her attempts to confront Harry, Nancy cannot express her anger in a healthy manner, allowing both her husband and her father to exploit her.
While driving one night in the desert, she sees a flying saucer, which shines a bright light at her. Even though she knows she will be the town's laughing stock, she also knows what she saw was real. She finally convinces Harry to accompany her on another night time drive in the desert, but the flying saucer is nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, the spaceship descends from the sky. Getting out of the convertible, for a closer look, Nancy is trapped by a bright light and disappears along with the flying saucer. Harry quietly returns to town and does not even report the kidnapping to the local authorities, Sheriff Denby (O'Neal Compton) and deputy Charlie Spooner (Victoria Haas).
A confused Nancy is later found atop of Honey's salon and is brought home. Her father is suspicious that Harry abandoned her into the desert while Harry denied any wrongdoing. Harry accused Hamilton of neglected his own wife after she was locked away at a sanitarium. As the two men argue, Nancy loses her temper, shouting that she can speak for herself and her mother. Suddenly, to everyone's surprise, she begins to grow; her clothes tear and rip as her head goes smashing through the ceiling into the attic. The next morning, Nancy is relocated into a large stable, and she is introduced to Dr. Loeb. He observed a hormonal surge that occurred during Nancy's growth. Scared, Nancy asks that he find a cure, while keeping this a secret. Unable to convince her to move into a controlled, therapeutic environment, Dr. Loeb explains to Harry that Nancy's condition is unique and precarious. The strain of her heart to sustain her new size would make any stress too dangerous for her. This gives Harry an idea to dispose of her.
As she grows, Nancy becomes more self-confident and strong-willed, empowered by her new strength over everyone else. Eventually, she invites Harry to dinner and discuss her physical, mental and emotional growth. She thinks this will make their marriage stronger and she has a number of ideas. However, Harry speculates that more stress will overload her heart and blood pressure and that she will die, leaving the family business and its money to him. Pretending to be unhinged by Nancy's suggestions (and carrying out his plan to overload her heart so that she dies), Harry deliberate insults and angers her so much that she faints from the stress, crashing into the stable. Escaping to Honey's salon, he celebrates Nancy's apparent death by offering her Nancy's diamond necklace. Suddenly, Nancy wakes up and searches through the town for Harry. She passes through a drive-in theater showing Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958).
Finding Honey and Harry, she grabs Honey and spares her, informing her that she doesn't have to behave stupid. Harry hides under the desk in pure fear. He crawls away feeling more scared than he has ever felt; Nancy is back for revenge. Trying not to scream or weep, he runs into his automobile; Nancy follows him and dumps him into her hand. Capturing Harry, she escapes into the desert with National Guard helicopters pursuing her. Stopped by some high voltage power lines and confronted by her father and the authorities, she asserts herself and announces her father's ambitions to buy out the town using her money.
Because of a miscommunication from the sheriff, a sniper on the helicopter shoots Nancy. Taking a direct hit, she falls onto the power lines, but is rescued and taken away (with Harry still in her grip) by the flying saucer, proving her claims were real. The crowds disperse, with Honey making a business agreement with Hamilton. Dr. Cushing explains to the press that wherever Nancy is, she now has Harry all to herself. Inside the spaceship, Harry is forced to undergo therapy with two other men under a small dome, watched over by Nancy and two other giantesses, and the spaceship flies away into the night.
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By what name was Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993) officially released in Canada in English?
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