Trailer
Plot summary
Casey Stuart, quarterback of her seventh-grade football team, has pulled away from her friends since her mother died. Her father, Ben, works at his law firm. Casey finds The Book of Awakenings and follows its instructions to raise the dead, gathering keepsakes from her mother's life, including hair from a brush. Ben's co-worker Drew McDonald gives Casey a fashion doll named Eve, and Casey discards it. Drew brushes the doll's hair with that brush while Casey speaks the incantation, so the magic acts on the toy. Casey wakes with Eve beside her, full-size and excited to be a real woman.
Cast
- Sam MacMillanas Sam
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Life-Size (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Rosman revealed in interviews that the script was originally titled Ken and Barbie before Disney bought it, and the writers avoided mentioning Barbie in later drafts once they worried toy company Mattel would not license the name.
- Lindsay, Tyra, and Jere Burns, who played the father, spontaneously broke into the toy's theme song with about fifteen minutes of shooting time left, and the crew rolled two cameras to capture the take that became the film's ending.
- Director Rosman revealed the doll character was originally named Star in the script, but had to be renamed because a real toy company was developing an actual doll with that same name at the time.
- Though the filmmakers never had the rights to the official character, many fans regard Life-Size as "the first live-action Barbie movie", a children's film that set the tone for later doll-inspired movies.
- Despite becoming a cult favorite on home video, the film was completely unavailable on any digital rental, purchase, or streaming platform for a quarter of a century before finally reaching streaming.
SPOILER
Disney required the writers to rewrite the ending after their original version had the animated doll become fully human and marry the father instead of turning back into a toy.
