After escaping he encounters human society at a shopping mall, buys a tuxedo, goes on a date with a woman named Sandy McCleary ( Laurie Metcalf) who thinks he is Jeff, reducing her to an emotional wreck, and then loses his head (literally) over Frankie's best friend Trish ( Glenne Headly) who has taken refuge in Frankie's apartment after walking out on her husband who is a star on the popular daytime soap opera New Jersey.įrankie also develops feelings for the android and befriends Jeff on a lesser level.
At one point the android impersonates Jeff in order to leave the laboratory, and stows away in Frankie's Chevrolet Corvair. However, in his interaction with her, the android develops emotions and develops better social skills than the scientist himself. As a part of her job, she must get to know the android better, in order to "humanize" him for the benefit of the project's sponsors in Congress. Ramdas ( Harsh Nayyar) and Jeff, who both give Frankie an overview of the Ulysses project.
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.įrankie Stone ( Ann Magnuson) is hired to do public relations for the project. He dreams of deep space exploration, which would be difficult because of the lack of human contact for long periods of time. Jeff Peters ( John Malkovich) is an emotionally repressed scientist who cannot stand others because of their intellectual inferiority. This film is primarily about the misadventures between an android and a woman. Right is a 1987 American science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman starring John Malkovich as Jeff Peters/Ulysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone. Malkovich is often seen onscreen with himself in this movie, but I never noticed any seams or glitches, and I was also quietly grateful to Seidelman for not providing any moments that were intended merely to exploit the trick.Making Mr.
MAKING MR RIGHT 1987 MOVIE
Right," we see a theater marquee in the background advertising " The Parent Trap." That was, of course, the movie where Hayley Mills played twins, thanks to trick photography. You may remember him as the smarmy, sweating porno store operator in " 52 Pick-Up." The distance between these two good performances is impressive.Īt one point in "Making Mr. Seidelman also has fun populating the outskirts of her plot with good character actors, especially Robert Trebor as the tuxedo salesman. It makes all the difference in the world. Right," there are scenes where the scientist and the android are mistaken for one another, and Seidelman uses the misunderstandings to make comic points about the personalities of her characters: They make wrong assumptions because of who they are, instead of because of how stupid they are. "Secret" has lots of moments when characters don't realize exactly who they're talking to, and it creates those moments out of the stupidity of the characters.
Seeing the two movies in the same week is instructive because they take such different approaches to the challenge of identity. With this film, she hits her stride as a comedy director who would rather be clever than obvious, who allows good actors such as Malkovich to go for quiet effects rather than broad, dumb cliches.Īlso around right now is " The Secret of My Success," another comedy depending on dual and mistaken identities. Right" was directed by Susan Seidelman, whose previous credits are "Smithereens," which I didn't much like, and " Desperately Seeking Susan," which was much more assured. She has an instantly combative relationship with the scientist who invented the android, and it's made trickier because as the android grows more human, the scientist subtly grows more robotic. Magnuson is fun, too, with her high heels and designer outfits, clipboards and speculative looks. Like Jeff Bridges in " Starman," he's able to meet the tricky challenge of moving in an uncoordinated way without looking merely ridiculous. Malkovich provides just the right amount of inept clumsiness for the android, which sometimes has trouble getting its mind-body coordination in line. That's true, for example, during the sweet, tentative moments when the android begins to fall for the woman.
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