Life-Size (film)

Infobox Film
name = Life-Size


caption = "Life-Size" DVD cover
director = Mark Rosman
producer = Fitch Cady
writer = Mark Rosman(teleplay) Stephanie Moore (teleplay) Stephanie Moore (story)
starring = Lindsay Lohan Tyra Banks Jere Burns
distributor =ABC
language = English
released = March 5, 2000
runtime = 101 min
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
imdb_id = 0200809

"Life-Size" is a 2000 made-for-TV film directed by Mark Rosman and originally premiered on ABC. It was released to DVD in the same year. The film is a family comic fantasy starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks in a tale of a young girl's Eve Doll (somewhat like Barbie) that is transformed into a living Perfect Woman.

Teaser

Sad and lonely after the death of her mother, Casey (Lindsay Lohan) would do anything to see her again. When a series of mystic mishaps mistakenly brings her fashion doll "Eve" (Tyra Banks) to life instead because her dad's crush brushed the doll hair with Casey's mother brush, it changes Casey's world forever.

ynopsis

Lindsay Lohan plays a young girl, Casey, who becomes a loner after the death of her mother. Her father, Ben, is busy working for the partnership vacancy at his law firm. His colleague, Drew, buys Casey an Eve Doll for her birthday. Meanwhile, Casey steals a book, Holcroft's Book of the Dead: Volume I, from a bookstore in attempt to resurrect her mother using one of the spells inside the book. She is about to begin the incantation of the process until Drew enters the room and messes up the altar she has prepared.

Drew uses Casey's mother's hairbrush to neaten Casey's new Eve Doll. Strands of the doll’s hair are stuck on the brush, and when Casey returns to her room, she carries out her process. The spell does work, but not on her mother. Due to the hair strands, it turns the doll alive, and Casey wakes up the next day finding a human Eve (Tyra Banks) sleeping next to her.

Casey brings Eve to the bookstore, wanting her to obtain Holfcroft's Book of the Dead: Volume II, as the second volume includes how to reverse spells. However, an oblivious Eve reveals to the shopkeeper that it is Casey who has stolen one of the books in the store. Casey flees, only to fall down in the middle of the road. She is nearly struck by a vehicle until Eve arrives, and with her police-officer experience, stops the vehicle.

To show gratitude to Eve, Ben loans her money on her shopping spree, and even allows her to use the guest room of their house. He lands her a job at his law firm as a temporary worker, but Eve realizes that though she is the best in everything at her fictional doll hometown, Sunnyville, she is unable to do anything in the human world. She messes up the photocopying machine and does not know how to process computer typing. Eve still has one talent in her, however, and that is the ability of being fashionable and applying make-up. She beautifies one of Ben's colleagues, and later at a law party, spices things up by performing a song, Be A Star (the theme song of the film).

Ben and Eve return home and nearly share a kiss until Casey arrives and breaks out in tears. Eve is curious at why Casey's eyes turn wet, and learns about it as the form of crying. The two's friendship turns for the better when they begin to understand each other and how their lives can never be perfect.

Soon, Eve realizes that she has to do something in order for the sales of her Eve dolls to increase, as the company is about to cancel the production of the dolls. Though Casey loses her football game, she is happy that Ben has finally managed to go to her game. The two rush to find Eve, who tells them that she has bought the second volume of the spell book and has completed the incantation. Eve turns back into a doll.

At the end of the film Casey begins to open up and smile more, joining her old friends again and the Eve doll's sales have increased due to the knowledge Eve learned about quote, "Being a role model doesn't mean you need to be perfect". The doll also says "I'm Eve show me your 100-watt smile". Ben finally goes on a date with Drew. The film ends with the cast performing the theme song once more.

Taglines

"She was a perfect doll. Now she's the real thing."

Cast

*Tyra Banks ... Eve "the doll"
*Lindsay Lohan ... Casey Stewart
*Jere Burns ... Ben Stewart
*Anne Marie Loder ... Drew Mitchell
*Garwin Sanford ... Richie
*Tom Butler ... Phil
*Jillian Farey ... Ellen
*Dee Jay Jackson ... Coach
*Corrine Koslo ... Toy storeowner
*Alfred Humphreys ... Bookstore owner
*Kerry Sandomirsky ... Ms. Weiner
*Sam MacMillan ... Sam
*Katelyn Wallace ... Sarah
*Shaina Tianne Unger ... Jessica
*Jessica Lee Owens ... Shannon
*Chantal Strand ... Sarah's sister
*Laurie Murdoch ... Mr. Boring
*Candice Connelly ... Mrs. Boring
*Alvin Sanders ... Guard
*Ryan de Boer ... Weiner
*Lesley Ewen ... Francine
*Kaitlyn Burke ... Girl with doll
*George Blondheim ... Bandleader
*Joanna Piros ... Newscaster
*Stephanie Moore ... Woman in mink
*Campbell Lane ... Judge Peterman
*Kasper Michaels ... Litter man
*Monika Lisowska, Rosa Zavaglia ... Mall persons
*Garvin Cross ... Truck driver"'

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*imdb title|id=0200809|title=Life-Size