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Released
1991 · FILM

Mannequin: On the Move

“She's been frozen for a thousand years...now it's time to break the ice.”

Directed by
Stewart Raffill
Written by
Edward Rugoff, Michael Gottlieb
Runtime
95 min
ComedyFantasyRomance

Synopsis

Jason, who works as a department store clerk, is also a reincarnated prince. In a past life, his beloved Jessie was taken from him by an evil wizard, who used his powers to turn her into a wooden statue. Now, Jessie exists in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When Jason encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year slumber. They quickly rekindle their romance, but the evil wizard has also been reincarnated and is once again plotting mischief.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Joan E ChapmanShot by Larry PizerScored by David MchughDesigned by William J Creber

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.8M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$3.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.7M — 45% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.1M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,540 theaters

Also known as

  • Mannequin 2 – Der Zauber geht weiterde
  • Mannequin Two: On the Moveen
  • Mannequin 2es
  • Aiuto! Mi sono persa a New Yorkit

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