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Encyclopedia > Mannequin (movie)

Mannequin is a 1987 film starring Kim Cattrall, Andrew McCarthy, Meshach Taylor, James Spader, G.W. Bailey, and Estelle Getty. See also: 1986 in film, other events of 1987, 1988 in film, list of years in film. Events May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers. ... Kim Cattrall Kim Cattrall (born Clare Woodgate on August 21, 1956) is a Canadian-American actress born in Liverpool, England. ... Andrew McCarthy (born November 29, American actor who appeared in several films during the 1980s. ... Meshach Taylor (born 11 April 1947) is an American actor. ... James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an actor best known for his roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Stargate, and Secretary. ... George W. Bailey (born August 27, 1945 in Port Arthur, Texas) is a veteran stage, television and film character actor. ... Getty as Sophia on The Golden Girls Estelle Getty (born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923) is an American actress best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom, The Golden Girls. ...


McCarthy plays Jonathan Switcher, a struggling artist who goes from one dead-end job to another. This all changes when a mannequin (Cattrall) he created for a department store window comes magically to life. Her beauty and love inspires Switcher to become the best window dresser in town.


The story has a subplot: In order to regain full status as a real life person, the mannequin must find true love first. A subplot is a series of connected actions within a work of narrative that function separately from the main plot. ... Love has many meanings in English. ...


See also

Hollywood was a fictional character played by Meshach Taylor in the 1987 movie Mannequin. ... Pygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. ... Agalmatophilia is an uncommon sexual fetish or paraphilia, also known as Pygmalionism after the Greek myth of Pygmalion. ...

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