It's an odd one, but I think the movie Cherry 2000 was formative to me.

Made in 1985, released in 1988, it's a Mad Max-esque adventure where a tracker (Melanie Griffith) is helping a businessman (David Andrews) find an out-of-production fembot in the post-apocalyptic desert wastelands of the future, to replace his animatronic wife that breaks down at the start of the film.

The year in the movie is 2017. Cherry 2000 is the name of the discontinued robot wife.

Needless to say, businessman Treadwell learns that an animatronic partner perhaps isn't the right future for him.

Anyone else remember this film?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/