I Didn't Sign for Twelve Brides

In a neon-bright, cel-animated 1986, a seventeen-year-old mall janitor signs a two-week fake-boyfriend contract with the girl who hosts the local creature-feature show: he gets help entering art school, and she gets a respectable prom date to appease her grandmother. Then a clearance-sale fog machine brings every mannequin in the mall to life, including twelve bridal models determined to drag the pretend couple down an aisle made of escalators. Between shopping-cart escapes, she discovers his charcoal portraits inside discarded shoeboxes, while he learns to calm her stage fright by letting her rehearse monster introductions against his shoulder. With the mannequins wheeling her grandmother toward a wedding arch, he must either wreck the store window displaying his scholarship entry or leave his pretend girlfriend to charge the plastic bridal party alone.