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In ancient Egypt, Ema "Emmy" Hesire asks the gods for true love rather than a marriage to a dung dealer, and she disappears. In Philadelphia, Jonathan Switcher is a sculptor who keeps losing jobs because he spends too long trying to make each project artistic. He completes a female mannequin he regards as his masterpiece, and his employer fires him. Roxie Shield, his girlfriend, works at the Illustra department store and ends their relationship. When his motorcycle fails in a rainstorm, he walks past Prince & Company and notices his mannequin in a window there. The following morning he keeps owner Claire Timkin from being hurt by her own shop sign, and she tells the manager, Mr. Richards, to give him work. He befriends Hollywood Montrose, a window dresser, and the mannequin comes alive for him as Emmy.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mannequin (1987)
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- The whole film began because director Michael Gottlieb thought he glimpsed a store mannequin actually move in the window of Bergdorf Goodman while walking down Fifth Avenue.
- Kim Cattrall spent six weeks posing for a sculptor who captured her likeness for six mannequins, and took up body-building because she wanted to match those mannequins as closely as possible.
- The film's main title song, Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart and earned an Academy Award nomination.
