In an ironic turn, watch how machinelike Jeff seems in comparison to Ulysses towards the end, you will be surprised! Brilliant! The scene at the wedding when Ulysses tells Frankie he loves her was perfect and particularly moving.Īn bright, smart, beautiful woman named Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is public relations executive. Equally, Dr Peters, though arrogant and dispassionate, does evoke some sympathy and compassion with the audience. Instead we have the pleasure of watching him grow and gradually develop the emotions and human characteristics that we take for granted, so that if you rewind and watch how Ulysses was at the beginning, he will seem completely different. A far cry from "Dangerous Liaisons", Malkovich works hard to give the android depth and character, when Ulysses could have easily become so two-dimensional. John Malkovich is equally good, and it is so nice to see him cast against type and doing comedy for a change - and two roles to boot - which he manages very well. The director took a risk in casting a relatively unknown actress (Magnuson) in a lead role, but that risk paid off - she turned in a faultless, feisty performance, and I really believed that she was a top notch confidant businesswoman whose love life was a mess. Right was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on April 1, 2003.This is a fantastic film, it really is. The film received mixed reviews from critics, as it holds a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 15 reviews. Laurie Metcalf as Sandra "Sandy" McCleary.As the lack of human contact of a seven-year space mission will not be a hardship for him due to asociality, Jeff decided 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. However, Ulysses appears at Frankie's front door during the launch Jeff actually presented that final speech himself, having realized his creation has become more empathic than him. Ulysses then gives his farewell speech, in which he bemoans humanity's difficulty in forming relationships, both platonic and romantic. She then uses her connections with a former client and boyfriend Steve Marcus, a candidate for Congress to attend Ulysses’ launch day in an attempt to say goodbye to Ulysses, but is reprimanded by Jeff and Dr. Frankie is fired from her job and forbidden contact with Ulysses or anyone on the project. Ulysses short-circuits and crashes into the swimming pool, turning the occasion into a public relations disaster. Trish's jealous TV-star husband crashes the wedding as well and gets into a fight with Ulysses. Frankie persuades Jeff to come, but Ulysses again absconds from the lab and gate-crashes the wedding. Frankie's mother Estelle Stone, ( Polly Bergen) learns from Frankie's ex-boyfriend's mother that Frankie has a doctor boyfriend (Jeff) and expects Frankie to bring him to the wedding of Frankie's sister Ivy Stone. 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.
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