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· Year: 1991
· Director: Stewart Raffill
· Writers: Edward Rugoff, David Isaacs, Ken Levine, Betsy Israel
· Cast: Kristy Swanson, William Ragsdale
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· A sequel to Mannequin.
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· Filmed in what was, in 1991, the John Wannamaker department store in Philadelphia. Note the metal eagle statue on the sales floor--that's what you might call a "giveaway," at least to anyone who knows the place. I haven't been there for years, and I don't even know what store inhabits the lower levels of the building now.
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A department store trainee discovers that a beautiful mannequin is actually a peasant woman who was frozen into a statue a thousand years ago.
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RATING
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26
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The only fun I had watching this "comedy" was spotting parts of the once-John Wannamaker department store in Philadelphia that's featured in the film. So for someone who's never been in that store, I can't imagine this film would hold much, if any, interest. It's a prime example of several variously decent actors (William Ragsdale, Kristy Swanson, and Meshach Taylor) doing a piece of work that is easily beneath them. Ragsdale gives a decent performance, but Swanson is simply not believable as a silly, perky, girl--she's more complex than that--and Taylor's walking, talking gay stereotype wore thin halfway through the first Mannequin. A couple of jokes work, but for the most part it's just well-intentioned eighties-type romantic schmaltz.
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