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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 21558
Released: December 26, 2001 |
| Our Price: $29.43 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A charming romantic comedy starring Andrew McCarthy (Pretty in Pink), Kim Cattrall ('sex andthe City ), Meshach Taylor ( Designing Women ), Estelle Getty ('the Golden Girls ) and James Spader(Stargate), Mannequin is more than the sum of its fiberglass body parts it's all heart! Jonathan Switcher (McCarthy) has certainly been living up to his name. A frustrated artist, he switches from one dead-end job to another, never managing to hold on to any of them. But all of that changes when a mannequin he created for a department store window comes magically to life! Gorgeous and statuesque, this fiberglass femme fatale (Cattrall) helps Jonathan turn his career around, inspiring him to be the best window dresser in town. But she soon discovers that the real world isn't so easy, when they run into competitors who want to put them out of businessfor good!
Description of Mannequin:
Mannequin is notionally a romantic comedy in which Andrew McCarthy plays a luckless department-store employee and Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) is an Egyptian princess reincarnated as a shop-window dummy, who comes to life when she encounters McCarthy, only to revert to mannequin status when anyone else is watching her. With her encouragement, he becomes emboldened in his career as a window decorator as well as falling in love with the princess. James Spader's oily, stammering executive is just one of the many examples of a film that tries way too hard to be funny, the sort of characterization that would be barely adequate for a TV commercial, let alone a 90-minute movie. Still, for fans of Sex and the City who might want to feast upon the spectacle of a younger Kim Cattrall, Mannequin might offer a measure of relief. --David Stubbs
Mannequin Reviews:
Mannequin 1 and 2 
2008-09-03 - While it had been years since I watched both of these, it was fun to watch them again. I am happy to have them in my movie collection.
MANNEQUIN & MANNEQUIN 2
2008-09-01 - YES I ENJOYED THIS MOVIE VERY MUCH. HAD NOT SEEN THIS FLIM FOR A VERY LONG TIME. ANDREW MCCARTHY LOOKS VERY CUTE AND ALSO LOVE KIM CATTRALL EXCELLENT. BRING BACK THE 80'S
Excellence
2008-08-26 - The Items recieved were in awesome condition and came very fast in the mail. THANK YOU!!!
80's Fun 
2008-08-26 - These videos brought back fond memories (the first one more than the second).
Mannequin was an enjoyable light hearted film and highlights the gorgeous Kim Cattrall, and teen heartthrob (at the time) Andrew Macarthy.
Highlight is the gay window dresser "Hollywood" who is played over the top, but brilliantly by Meshach Taylor, he also reprises his role in II.
It interesting to see early role of James Spader as the slimy Mr Richards, and GW Bailey (Rizzo from MASH) as the store security "commandant".
Not a classic but fun and enjoyable none the less.
Love Both Movies
2008-08-25 - I'm glad I was able to get them both on DVD at once. This is one movie that I grew up watching and will watch over and over again!
