Making Mr. Right

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Making Mr. Right (1987) is a science fiction/comedy film, directed by Susan Seidelman and starring John Malkovich as Jeff Peters/Ulysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone.

This film is primarily about an android and a woman's misadventures.

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In the film a scientist, Jeff Peters, is a cold and emotionally repressed intellectual who cannot stand other people due to their intellectual inferiority to him. His dream is deep space exploration, which would be problematic for a human because of the total cutoff from human contact for long periods of time. He develops the Ulysses android (which looks exactly like him) for the purpose of studying phenomena in space, since an android would not be affected by the isolation.

Frankie Stone is hired to do public relations for the project. As a part of her job, she must get to know the android better. However, in his interaction with her, the android develops emotions and develops better social skills than the scientist himself. Frankie also develops feelings for the android and befriends Jeff on a lesser level. Eventually, Jeff decides to go into space while the android takes his place on Earth so Ulysses and Frankie (who by now are deeply in love) can be together. Due to his lack of social skills, Jeff realizes that the lack of human contact will not be a hardship for him.

[edit] Trivia

The android Ulysses was designed for a seven-year space exploration mission (using an Apollo Command Module in the film) - NASA would name one of its deep space probes Ulysses for studying the sun.