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. 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. 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. All rights reserved.SupportTerms of UsePrivacy Polic圜ookie PolicyDo Not Sell My Personal Information Please enable it or install a modern browser that support JavaScript.ĬareersPartnersAbout usWhere to watchSupportThis feature is coming soon.We’re currently working on it! Thanks for your patience.About UsOur StoryLeadershipNewsPressCareersBecoming A CitizenResponsibilitiesPerksWhere To WatchSmart TVStreaming DevicesMobile AppDesktop AppWatch on the webAccessibilityPartnersDistributionContent ProvidersAdvertisers© 2023 Pluto Inc. ![]() ![]() This website needs JavaScript to work properly.
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