Paper Dolls

I just wanted to know if anyone has an idea where I could get a copy of this movie. I saw it on TV once when I was younger and I couldn't watch it.

My given name is Taryn Blake and after hearing Daryl Hannah throw a tantrum at her mother(?) in which she shouts, "I am Taryn Blake!" I had to turn off the television. It was very frightening. I've never met another Taryn much less a blond version of my namesake!

I would like to show the movie to a couple of people who still don't believe me about this.

• "the real" taryn blake

Great, glamorous, campy fun replete with shoulder pads and synthesizers.

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.

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.

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!