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Follow us today to a 1987 American romantic comedy film called: Mannequin.
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
The film begins in ancient Egypt.
A beautiful girl named Emmy hides in a funerary pyramid from her mother who wants an arranged
marriage.
Emmy is against her arranged marriage and prays to the gods to be united with her true
love in the future.
Suddenly, the girl disappears into her mother's eyes.
Moving forward in time, we find ourselves in 1990s Philadelphia.
Here we meet the main character named Jonathan, a sculptor.
He assembles a perfect mannequin with a lot of effort and dedication, even though it takes
a lot of time to make it.
He is delighted with the result, but his boss is of a different opinion.
Jonathan tries to passionately explain his work, but the boss disapproves after learning
that he has been tinkering with other mannequins.
So he decides to fire him.
Jonathan doesn't get sad because he has an off-the-books job.
He is at a children's party and as he is giving everyone balloons, a little boy approaches
and asks him for the biggest one.
He becomes fiercely persistent, and Jonathan hands him the balloon.
The boy starts flying through the air.
The kid's father sees this and he is fired afterwards.
Young Jonathan doesn’t know what rejection means and finds another job.
He must sculpt a bush following a pattern, but his artistic passion gets him fired again.
In the evening, he rides his motorcycle to a business center to pick up his girlfriend
Roxie from work.
The woman works in a large company and wears an expensive dress.
When Jonathan arrives, he is ashamed of his companion.
She dreams of dinner at a fancy restaurant, but Jonathan cannot afford it.
So he proposes a romantic walk in the park with ice cream in hand.
For Roxie, a man's status and career are the most important things.
After Jonathan reveals that he has lost another job, she leaves him the same evening.
Jonathan becomes sad, and to make matters worse, the bike doesn’t start.
He starts dragging the motorcycle through the rain, wandering around the night streets
of the city.
He passes a large clothing store and catches a glimpse of his perfect mannequin in a window.
Jonathan declares that she is the first to make him feel like a true artist.
The window light goes out, and he decides to return the day.
Miraculously, the bike gets started, and after saying goodbye to the mannequin, he leaves
for home.
The following day, Jonathan returns to the store, where he sees the mannequin.
The store is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Soon after, the friendly store owner, Mrs. Claire, arrives.
Suddenly, a person pushes the worker who is holding the sign.
Jonathan ends up saving Mrs. Claire's life from imminent death.
In return for this heroic act, Claire offers to find Jonathan a position in the department
store.
They go inside, and Ms. Claire shows him around the beautiful building and tells him about
the brand's history.
The store is open, but lately, it has become a deserted place.
This is where Mr. Richards, the store's chief window dresser, comes in.
He is currently working with competitors and tells them that Ms. Claire's business is doing
poorly.
So soon, the granny will be forced to sell.
Mrs. Claire hires Jonathan and asks Mr. Richards to find something for him to do.
Richard hires Jonathan as a common packer.
The young boy is happy and calls his ex-girlfriend Roxie to tell her about the new job.
The girl seems happy for him, and they eventually arrange to have a date at the restaurant.
Jonathan makes sure no one follows him and begins to search for the mannequin he created.
It is not easy because Richard constantly follows him and controls what he does.
Eventually, he finds the beautiful dummy he made and immediately falls in love with his
own art.
At one point, out from behind comes the decorator of the store called Hollywood.
A sunny fellow immediately befriends Jonathan.
Hollywood doesn't make fun of Jonathan because he talks to a mannequin.
From there, they start working together, and that night they build a window display with
Jonathan's mannequin.
He then meets Captain Felix in the main corridor.
They get off on the wrong foot.
Felix asks him questions and doesn’t like Jonathan at all.
Also, Felix does not like Hollywood, and when he learns that he and Jonathan work together,
he is pretty upset.
Later, Jonathan returns to the mannequin he created and is surprised when, alone, it comes
to life with Emmy's spirit.
Emmy then explains that the gods allow her to live when she is alone with Jonathan, who
does not know if he is dreaming or has gone mad.
To prove to him that she is real, Emmy even shoots him with a nail gun.
She caresses him and compliments him on the hands he built her with.
The two walk through the store, and Emmy asks him to dress her in a different outfit every
day.
The next day, he wakes up in a storefront along the street.
Emmy has transformed into a plastic mannequin again.
The couple has been observed by a titless on the street all this time.
Jonathan goes to Roxie to tell her what happened tonight.
Roxie is in the car with a guy who just wants to sleep with her.
Jonathan feels guilty because he had not gone to dinner with Roxie last night.
The main character tells her about Emmy, but Roxie thinks he has gone crazy and leaves.
Meanwhile, a crowd surrounds the storefront where Emmy's mannequin is.
Due to these results, the board of directors holds a meeting about Jonathan.
Mr. Richard proposes to fire the guy for making the company look bad.
The other board members ignore Richard's words and give Jonathan a promotion.
Richard is furious and knows that Captain Felix and Jonathan have a strained relationship.
So, the jealous gentleman asks Felix to take care of young Jonathan.
The silly captain agrees and asks if he should write reports, even though he knows he cannot
write.
So Felix and his dog Rambo try to find their prey, Jonathan.
In the evening, Emmy becomes human and starts having fun with Jonathan.
She tells him that she met Christopher Columbus and Leonardo Da Vinci.
Then, the two try on different outfits from the store and go wild.
Wandering around the store, Felix sees the elevator go down and decides to send Rambo
inside.
Something happened that the captain surely did not foresee; the dog escaped from the
elevator in a second.
Rambo got scared of Emmy, who turned into a mannequin again once they met the captain.
Later that night, Jonathan and his beloved arrange the showcase for the next day.
The next morning the showcase is crowded again.
Ms. Claire is stunned.
She is really excited to have a fellow like Jonathan working for her.
Young Jonathan works at night and sleeps during the day.
But this time, his sleep is interrupted by a phone call from Roxie.
The ex-girlfriend convinces him to have lunch together.
In fact, she doesn’t do it out of love but by the boss's order.
Roxie's boss wants to lure the talented Jonathan into his store.
Jonathan arrives an hour late, but Roxie doesn’t seem upset.
The girl tries to recruit Jonathan.
She promises him higher wages and other illusions.
Jonathan doesn’t let her finish and says he is not interested.
He is no longer the errand boy he used to be.
He already has a favorite job, a fabulous girlfriend, and friends who really love him.
So he rejects Roxie and goes home.
Before he leaves, he screws up again and sparks a fire in the diner.
While at the store, Felix tells Richard that strange things happen in the store at night.
In fact, Richard cannot understand how a boy went from being a loser to the most famous
decorator in town.
That evening, Jonathan and Emmy spend time together as they usually do.
But tonight, they have guests, not only Captain Felix but also Roxie and her boyfriend.
Felix finds Jonathan kissing Emmy's dummy and teases him.
At the same time, Roxie and her boyfriend take pictures of Jonathan.
Later Felix and Jonathan start a fight that ends badly for the captain.
Sometime after the two guests leave and the captain is unconscious - Jonathan and Emmy
continue to have fun together.
Emmy has never flown before, and tonight she wants to try.
Everything goes great, but she lands on Felix and his dog Rambo.
The store opens very soon, and the two lovers get to work.
Jonathan's window designs continue to make headlines, and business keeps returning to
Prince & Company, leaving the Illustra CEO angry.
Claire is very impressed with Jonathan's work and, shortly after that, promotes him to vice
president of the department store.
She then fires Richards and Felix Maxwell for their accusations against Jonathan.
Roxie takes the photos to her boss and says they can destroy his life.
On the other hand, her boss has a better idea - he wants to bring Jonathan to work for him.
Since it didn't work out with Roxie, the only way is to steal Emmy's mannequin.
Meanwhile, Jonathan chooses to celebrate that evening by taking Emmy for a ride on his motorcycle.
However, before he can leave, he is again approached by Roxie.
The girl thinks he is out of his mind because he is riding around with a dummy on his motorcycle.
She again begs him to come and work with the contestants.
Jonathan again refuses, claiming that there are people at Prince & Company who care about
him and someone who makes him feel special.
As he walks away, Roxie shouts at him that he will regret it and that he is making a
big mistake.
Richards takes Felix to the competitors, and together they plan to go to the Prince and
Company store and steal Emmy.
Richards and Felix drive around to find Jonathan and Emmy on a motorcycle.
They see them drive by, and the mannequin begins to taunt Felix.
The foolish captain starts following them.
Before long, he loses control of the car, and they are trapped between two buildings.
Later, Jonathan and Emmy enjoy their time alone in the empty store.
Before the sun rises, Emmy walks away from him to take a seat on a storefront.
However, Richards and Felix have also come to steal Emmy.
The problem is that they are not sure which mannequin is her.
Desperate, they simply steal all the female mannequins in the store, unaware that they
are being watched.
Jonathan wakes up the next morning alone in the store and is informed of this plan by
Hollywood.
Jonathan immediately suspects that the rival company is behind it and goes to the location
with Hollywood.
Emmy's theft was obviously an attempt to blackmail Jonathan, but he just wants to know where
Emmy is.
The CEO makes Jonathan a job offer, but the young fellow freaks out and knocks Richards
out.
Felix begins chasing Jonathan through the store with a new dog named Terminator.
The captain orders the dog to attack Jonathan, but he runs somewhere else.
Enraged, Roxie takes the dummies to a back warehouse to destroy them.
Roxie loads the stolen female mannequins onto a large trash compactor.
Jonathan follows Roxie as Hollywood restrains the pursuers with a fire hose.
An attendant watches Jonathan jump onto the compactor's conveyor belt to rescue Emmy,
who is slowly meeting her fate.
Jonathan grabs her, and miraculously, Emmy comes to life and grabs his arm as he pulls
her out, and the janitor closes the compactor.
Once safe, Emmy realizes that she is alive again and free of her ancient curse.
She thanks the gods for uniting her with her true love, and Jonathan vows to love her forever.
As the attendant wonders if more dummies will come to life, Hollywood arrives and suddenly
realizes that Emmy has been alive all along.
Later, the guards, Felix, Richards, and their boss, enter the room, along with several police
officers.
Jonathan is arrested, but before they can do so, Claire arrives to convince the officers
that they have footage of Richards and Felix sneaking into Prince & Company to steal Emmy.
The agents arrest Felix, Richards, and their boss, who fires Roxie as he is taken away.
Jonathan realizes that the footage may show him enjoying himself with an Emmy.
Still, Claire tells him not to worry about that.
Jonathan and Emmy are married in the window of the Prince & Company store, with Claire
as maid of honor and Hollywood as best man and numerous pedestrians watching them exchange
vows.
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