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Mannequin is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gottlieb in his directorial debut, and written by Edward Rugoff and Gottlieb. It stars Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, Meshach Taylor, and G. W. Bailey.
Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell.
In Ancient Egypt, the young princess Ema "Emmy" Hesire is a woman ahead of her time. When her mother attempts to force her to marry a manure dealer, she wishes to go to the future and vanishes. In present-day Philadelphia, Jonathan Switcher is an idealistic young artist that builds a mannequin.
Mannequin is a real dummy, outfitted with a ludicrous concept and a painfully earnest script that never springs to life, despite the best efforts of an impossibly charming Kim Cattrall. Jonathan...
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- Michael Gottlieb
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- Andrew Mccarthy
In "Mannequin," McCarthy plays a hapless young man who is fired from one job after another, and Cattrall plays an Egyptian princess who is reincarnated as a dummy in a Philadelphia department store window.
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Mannequin is a 1987 romantic comedy fantasy film based on the Pygmalion myth, starring Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Meshach Taylor, James Spader, G. W. Bailey, and Estelle Getty.
