The Case for Remaking Mannequin

This is a rather obscure one from the 1980's. I just don't hear anybody talking about it anymore and... that's just as well. I did enjoy this movie, repeatedly. I'd watch it over and over again because, and this is important, I was a child who liked repetition. When the sequel came to cable, I watched it and enjoyed on the basis of a movie that was bad enough to be amusing in its own right.

Of movies from the 80's, there are better movies to be remembered. Then again, a movie doesn't need to reach heights of art. It just needs to be amusing enough to be worth what you paid to see it, especially if it's on cable and that cost was shared with a great deal of much better entertainment.

For those who, quite reasonably, don't know, Mannequin is the story of an artist and the bit of anthropomoriphized plastic he falls in love with... Really.

Okay, there's a more generous description. There are two main characters.
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