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This film has it all - outstanding fashion, wonderful performances, and well developed characters. Daryl Hannah nearly breaks your heart at the end of the film, in the same vein as Angelina Jolie in "Gia". Loosely based on Brooke Shields and Terry Shields, Daryl Hannah plays a young model managed by her pushy stage Mom played by Joan Hackett. Her life changes when she meets Laurie, a regular high school student brought into the modeling world. Everything said in this movie, is said with sincerity, and real dramatics. It doesn't take any cheap shots. You can find this movie on YouTube, it is worth watching!

I remember watching this when it came out in 1982. Normally a guy wouldn't watch a movie like this but both women were so beautiful! I know most would go for the blond Darryl, but I liked the brunette and remember thinking she would be the bigger star. As it turns out, Darryl's career took off with Splash and other big movies and Alexandra was no where to be found! I was glad she ended up on a very successful TV series Baywatch but I still always thought her talent and looks had been wasted. I have met both actresses in real life(just met Alexandra1/1/12 at the farmers marker in Pacific Palisades) and Darryl at the Brentwood farmers market 3 years ago and of the 2, Alexandra is a sweeter and nicer person by far.

I haven't seen this movie again since it aired but I do remember liking it. I believe it was the first movie for both actresses.

made for tv movies normanlly are a bit dramatic for me. not this one though. i like this movie a lot. i did know this movie but i did know the tv show that was a comedy when it came out around 1990. it was pretty much the same thing just funny. later on, i saw the movie on lifetime! i was impressed. 1-10 (8) Z.

When I saw this movie back 1982, I immediately thought of Brooke Shields. Taryn Blake was just a blonde version of Brooke Shields. The character and and Julia Blake were just Brooke and Teri Shields disguised. Julia Blake was manipulative, just like Teri Shields is manipulative. Brooke Shields modeled as a baby, just like Taryn Blake did. Teri Blake lived off of Brooke's money for years. This movie was very realistic in the portrayal of the ups and downs of the professional modeling world. Julia Blake was the perfect example of the pushy stage mother who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Taryn was just a pawn in the whole game, not getting to have a real childhood in her life.

I had to see PAPER DOLLS in January 2022 but back then it was nowhere to be found. Time passed, and last June someone uploaded it on Youtube, to my extreme joy. But when I finally saw it I felt a bit cheated. Now I'll explain.

Julia Blake (Joan Hackett) and Dinah Caswell are two women that think their young daughters Taryn Blake (Daryl Hannah) and Laurie Caswell should be models so, after a meeting with boss Racine (Joan Collins) the mothers will make their daughters enter the business even tho Taryn has to pass a maths exam and Laurie has to graduate, and in fact trouble is on the way.

The concept looked good, after all two years later it inspired a TV show. But what ruined the movie for me was the young leads' whiny nature (especially the brunette, and she needed to be rounded up), the fact that their mother were very approving of the trashy business their daughters were entering and its overall shallow nature.

One positive tho, and that's what didn't make me give a 1 or 2. It launched the careers of Daryl Hannah (who would go on to star in SPLASH, ROXANNE, the two KILL BILLs and even put me a like on a comment on Instagram) and Eric Stoltz (who debuted in 1978 with THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER OVER THE SEPTIC TANK, after this he played one of Sean Penn's friends in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and while he was fired from BACK TO THE FUTURE and THE KARATE KID he would make lots of great movies such as PULP FICTION, FLUKE. MASK and THE WATERDANCE for naming a few), so you can survive a bad debut and go on to greater things.

Overall, if you saw the TV show PAPER DOLLS or you are into these shallow things, then watch it since it's finally available again.