Making Mr. Right

Making Mr. Right is a 1987 science fictioncomedy film, directed by Susan Seidelman starring John Malkovich as Jeff PetersUlysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone.

Jeff Peters John Malkovich is an emotionally repressed scientist who cannot stand others because of their intellectual inferiority. He dreams of deep space exploration, which would be difficult because of the lack of human contact for long periods of time. He develops the Ulysses android which looks exactly like him for the purpose of space exploration, since an android would not be affected by the isolation.Frankie Stone Ann Magnuson is hired to do public relations for the project. As a part of her job, she must get to know the android better, in order to humanize him for the benefit of the projects sponsors in Congress. However, in his interaction with her, the android develops emotions and develops better social skills than the scientist himself. At one point he impersonates Jeff in order to leave the laboratory, and stows away in Frankies car. After escaping he encounters human society at a shopping mall, buys a tuxedo, goes on a date with a woman who thinks he is Jeff, reducing her to an emotional wreck, and then loses his head literally over Frankies best friend Trish Glenne Headly who has taken refuge in Frankies apartment after walking out on her husband who is a star on the popular daytime soap opera New Jersey. ........

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