Synopsis
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. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.
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Cast
- Andrew McCarthyJonathan Switcher
- Kim CattrallEma 'Emmy' Hesire
- Estelle GettyClaire Prince Timkin
- James SpaderMr. Richards
- G.W. BaileyCaptain Felix Maxwell
- Carole DavisRoxie Shield
- Meshach TaylorHollywood
- Steve VinovichB.J. Wert
- Christopher MaherArmand
- Phyllis NewmanEmmy's Mother
Recommendations
- 40
Variety
Mannequin is as stiff and spiritless as its title suggests. - 40
Los Angeles Times
It's the material that's a problem, its sheer emptiness. Gottlieb and co-writer Ed Rugoff are clumsily trying to re-create something that's better if it's done cannily, with no illusions. - 37
Washington Post
Some sort of combination of a teen-age Bewitched and a Police Academy for department stores. - 30
The New York Times
In place of a real story, there is just the spectacle of stock characters being put through their paces to fill up the time. - 30
Time Out
This pitifully unfunny comedy has only two things going for it: its theme song, Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, is a hit single; and it is short. A film about, by and for dummies. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
A lifeless and sophomoric attempt at romantic comedy that draws on the fantasy films of old Hollywood but fails miserably. - 25
Washington Post
Broadly acted and badly directed, the cast never clicks and the gags fall flat. (Or, they stoop to dog flatulence.) This is a movie made for one-stop shoppers. - 25
Chicago Tribune
There's some solid talent here, but Gottlieb's overemphatic direction reduces them all to broad caricature--the kind of crazed mugging that isn't often seen outside the boundaries of Saturday morning kiddie shows. [13 Feb 1987, p.A]
