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Kim Catrall plays the mannequin, who is actually a princess from centuries past who was condemned to become a mannequin by a marriage prospect she had rejected. She is placed for showcase inside a Macy's store, and she can only come back to life at night.
Her secret is discovered by a store worker, played by McCarthy, who gets to stay around the store at night as a security guard. He and Hollywood (played by Taylor), a fashion expert who works with the mannequins, became best friends, and Hollywood eventually also finds out about the secret and becomes friends with the Princess.
The security guard and the princess fall in love, but he feels he must be going crazy, because of the unimaginable situation of a real person actually falling in love with a mannequin that turns out to have a real life too.
The story has a subplot: In order to regain full status as a real life person, the mannequin must find true love first.
1987 films