When Frankie learns her boyfriend, Congressman Steve Marcus, had a sexual fling with a beauty contest winner, she breaks up with him and refuses to work on his reelection campaign. In Miami, Florida, image and media consultant Frankie Stone is an overachieving woman who is perpetually stressed and constantly late for appointments. When she refuses, he threatens to hire her former assistant, Suzy Duncan. Congressman Steve Marcus comes to see Frankie at Chemtec, bringing her flowers in an attempt to woo her back into working on his reelection campaign. Trish has left her husband Don, an actor on the popular nighttime soap opera New Jersey, after she caught him having an affair with another actress on the television show. When Frankie returns to her South Beach apartment, her friend Trish is waiting for her. Frankie volunteers to help Ulysses learn social graces, especially around women. Peters explains that programming the android can only go so far and Ulysses must learn other things, especially motor functions, just like a child. Jeff Peters, who invented Ulysses and built him in his own image, comes in, takes off Ulysses’s head, and presses his reset button. She pushes him away and the android shuts down. Curious about her breasts, Ulysses places his hands on Frankie’s chest to feel them. Frankie drives to the Chemtec campus where she meets Ulysses, who has never seen a woman before. Research and technology company Chemtec hires Frankie to help with the public relations campaign to introduce a state-of-the art, human-looking android named Ulysses, developed for missions to explore deep space. The film opened nationwide to generally negative reviews.Įnd credits include “special thanks” to "David Loucka Susan Anton Frances Kenny Andy Divteneass Eric Weissemann Nana Vasconcelos Dorian Harris Harry Mondoleon Barbara Boyle Maunter Lander Dade County Film Coordination Office The Officers of the Florida Highway Patrol Metro Dade and Miami Beach Police Forces Manor’s Jewelers Advertising in Movies Raefinati 'The Joker’s Wild ' NASA WFTE Nomo.” The Nov 1986 issue of Moviegoer magazine stated the film’s budget was $9 million. Among the locations used were Miami Beach’s Casablanca Hotel for the wedding scenes and the Turnberry Isle condominium complex in North Miami for a scene in which main character “Frankie Stone,” picks up her former boyfriend “Steve Marcus,” as noted in the Chicago Tribune. Principal photography began in the Miami, FL area on, according to the DV production chart. Promotional materials in AMPAS library files indicates the script was completed in early 1985, but director Susan Seidelman worked with the writers on several additional drafts to shift the focus from a Frankenstein-type story to a Pygmalion-style theme with the main character coaching the android on social graces and the ways of humanity. Right marked the debut feature-film screenplay for writers Floyd Byars and Laurie Frank. It's truly a bizarre flick that deserves the status of a cult comedy.Making Mr. As the lack of human contact of a seven-year space mission isn't an issue for him due to his antisocial nature, he decides to go into space while the android takes his place on Earth so Ulysses and Frankie can remain together and in love. Jeff actually presents the final speech himself, having realized his creation has become more empathic than him. The question that lingers is whether she's in love with the robot or with the real deal?! At the end, Ulysses appears at Frankie's front door during the launch to space. Since the real-life scientist seems to lack all emotions, he is unable to program his lack of emotion in his automaton, and an eccentric lady is hired to "educate" the android on how to be more human-like. Sadly there's no nudity in the flick, though Glenn Headly does nip out her satin top and shows her undies while flopping around on a bed! The story follows a reclusive scientist, Malkovich, who builds a robot that looks exactly like himself and is set to go on a long-term space mission. The whole thing is a romantic comedy, too, which is even weirder. He demonstrates his comedic chops playing both a doctor and his robot duplicate named Ulysses. Right (1987) might just be the strangest starring vehicle for John Malkovich ever.
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