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Director: Michael Gottlieb
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From Time Out Film Guide
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. Cattrall plays an Egyptian princess who, back in 2514 BC, is saved by the Gods from being married off to a dung-dealer, and turns up as a dummy in a Philadelphia department store window. McCarthy, a frustrated artist who had a hand in her fashioning, is enchanted to discover that she comes alive at night. In between dressing-up and undressing one another, the pair also dress a few of the ailing store's windows, thereby reviving its fortunes and thwarting the takeover plans of avaricious rivals. Incidental 'humour' is provided by a screaming gay black stereotype, a Rambo-fixated security guard and his cowardly bulldog, and McCarthy's jealous ex-girlfriend. A film about, by and for dummies.Author: NF
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- dave winters said...
- Posted on Jun 08 2008 13:21 oh and by the way im a mannequin
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- david winters said...
- Posted on Jun 08 2008 13:19 oh and by the way im a mannequin
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- dave winters said...
- Posted on Jun 08 2008 13:15 i thought the movie was great i dont know why it bombed at the box office. those guys that reveiw these movies dont know what there talking about or or just dont like what they see wake up and smell the coffee man
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Cast & crew
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Producer: Art Levinson
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader, GW Bailey, Carole Davis, Steve Vinovich full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
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