Life-Size is a 2000 American comedy-fantasy comedy film directed by Mark Rosman and starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks. It was originally aired on ABC, and was released on DVD and VHS in the same year. The film follows a young girl whose Eve Doll (somewhat like Barbie) turns into a perfectly living woman.
The tagline for the movie is "She is the perfect puppet Now she is the real one." Filmed in 1999, it aired as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC, and made dà ©  © but on the Disney Channel in March 2000. However, the film was not released in the UK until 3 August 2002.
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Plot
Casey Stuart (Lindsay Lohan), is a tomboy who is a quarterback of the seventh grade soccer team at his school. Since his mother died two years ago, he has avoided his old friends and argued with a boy on his team. Wanting to bring her mother back to life, Casey finds a magic book with a section on raising the dead at a local bookstore. The successful resurrection will become permanent unless it is canceled before sunset on the fourth day after it begins. However, because the book was expensive, he left all the money he had on the shelf in the glass compartment where the book was located.
Following the instruction of the book, Casey collects artefacts from her mother's life, including the strands of hair on her hairbrush. However, the awakening awakened has been sabotaged when Drew Mitchell (Anne Marie Loder), a woman who works with and is romantically attracted to Casey's father, Ben (Jere Burns), gives Casey an Eve dolls. Eve is a plastic doll in the form of a beautiful young woman, produced by Marathon Toys . He has many accessories, including suits suitable for challenging careers such as law enforcement, medicine, and aerospace, and lives in Sunnyvale, "in the middle of America".
As Casey prepares to revive her mother, Drew stops to give her a doll for her birthday and uses a hair brush to brush the doll's hair. With the strands of the doll remaining in the brush when Casey utters a spell, the act of magic on the doll rather than Casey's mother, and Casey wakes up the next morning to find Eve in bed with her in full-size human form (Tyra Banks). Casey was upset with this, but Eve was eager to be human.
Over the next few days, Eve bought clothes at a local shopping mall, using her police training to stop the truck that nearly flooded Casey, kissing and eating for the first time, trying to do secretarial work, singing the theme song, and almost burning Stuart's kitchen. He also helped Casey overcome the loss of his mother. Meanwhile, Casey discovers that he needs a second volume of magic books to reverse Eve's spell.
During this time, tensions formed between Casey and his father, who had lost his soccer game while trying to secure promotion at his law firm. This tension is increasing because of Ben's interest in Eve, which Casey hates as a betrayal of his mother. Eve helps people become better versions of themselves.
As the film progresses, Casey and Eve gradually become friends. Eve presented insight and sensitivity in talking to Casey about her mother, and she helped Casey with her confidence. Instead, Casey gives Eve tips on how to become a popular doll and a good role model. By the time the magic book arrived at the local bookstore, Casey had decided he liked Eve, so he did not buy it. Unfortunately, Eve had missed the house. Depressed by the difficulty of being human and worried about being stopped by Marathon, Eve decides to abort her own mantra.
After buying the book, and saying goodbye to Ben at Casey's championship game, he went to Sunnyvale, a room specially decorated at Marathon headquarters, and recited a spell. When Casey and Ben arrive, he tearfully says goodbye and returns to the doll. Some time later, with lessons learned from his experience in the human world, he became a popular toy again. Casey continued his old friendship, Ben was promoted at work, and Drew took her to lunch.
The film ends as a dance player for Eve's theme song.
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Cast
Production
Casting
Since the movie is a television movie, Lohan does not have to audition for the role of Casey Stuart, the girl whose doll comes to life. The film producer offered him a role as part of a three-picture contract with The Walt Disney Company. He must learn how to play football for that role and find it to be "difficult." In the film, his character's mother has died. Lohan felt challenged to act like her dead mother because she could not get in touch.
The bank was given the role of Eve, the doll who magically transformed into a living woman during Casey's attempts to revive her mother. Maya Mani's costume designer says, "It's good to work with Tyra because she knows how to wear clothes, no matter what we wear her, she can carry it."
Burns, known for its irritating and annoying past, is cast for its sympathetic acting ability. His character, Casey's father, was too busy with legal practice to pay attention to Casey since his wife died of cancer.
The Lindsay Lohan brothers have small parts in the film. At Casey's soccer matches, his brothers Michael, Ali, and Dakota can be seen sitting in the stands, cheering for the team.
Filming
Stephanie Moore came up with the idea of ​​a living doll. He collaborated with director, Mark Rosman, on the teleplay for the film. Pre-production began in the summer of 1999, and the filming began in October 1999.
The beginning of the movie begins with an ad promoting the purchase of Eve dolls. For commercial dolls, production designer David Fischer accidentally went for a 1950s retro look, similar to The Jetsons . "It should look ancient but fun and inviting" says director Mark Rosman.
Filming lasts for three weeks. For the location, the producers think Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will be a good location for this movie. The toy store used in this movie is named Kaboodles . This is the name of the actual toy store, because it does not change during production. Located at Point Gray in Vancouver.
There is a British Columbia flag on Ben's license plate, which indicates that it is set in British Columbia Canada. However, also on the license plate, it says: Evergreen State. The Evergreen State is Washington. The film will initially be premiÃÆ'¨re as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on February 27, 2000. It was delayed for a week, and then released on March 5th.
Music
George Blondheim and Mark Rosman wrote a song titled "Be a Star" that Tyra Banks sang at a business party. This song is the theme song for the movie, and also replicated at the end of the movie. Two songs by group B * Witched are used in the movie: "C'est la Vie" and "Rollercoaster". A song from Nobody's Angel's debut album, "Keep Me Away", is used near the end of the movie.
Sequel
The sequel was first reported in November 2012. In January 2014, Disney Channel announced that they were working on a sequel of Life-Size in the title as Life-Size 2 , with Tyra Banks repeats the role of Eve. In March 2015, Banks tweeted that they were still working on the script.
In September 2015, Tyra said to Hollywood Life : "We've got a lot of draft scripts, and one thing I can say is that for the Disney Channel executive, Life-Size in December 2015 , "" No one else can play Eve but me, thank you very much! I'm just kidding with you, but yes, I will be Eve. "
In April 2017 it was announced that the film will debut on Freeform in December 2017. Banks said in an interview in January 2018 that the script is almost complete and production is expected to begin in Summer 2018.
References
External links
- Life-Size on IMDb
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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