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.
Synopsis
Lindsay Lohan plays a young girl, Casey, who becomes alienated from her friends and father after the death of her mother. Her father, Ben, is busy working to fill the partnership vacancy at his law firm and therefore is unwittingly distanced from her, as demonstrated when he repeatedly fails to attend her football games. Out of a desire to be compassionate, his colleague Drew buys Casey an Eve Doll (a well-known but decreasingly popular fashion doll intended to act as a "role model") as a birthday gift. Meanwhile, Casey steals a book called
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 when Drew enters the room and disorders her preparations. Moments before Casey reorganizes these, Drew uses a hairbrush formerly belonging to Casey's mother to neaten the Eve Doll. Strands of the doll’s hair are stuck on the brush, apparently obscuring the mother's hair. When Casey returns to her room, she works the magic, using the hair on the brush as a means of summoning its owner's spirit. Because the mother's hair has been covered by that of the doll, Casey wakes up the next day to find a human Eve (
Tyra Banks) sleeping beside her.