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Making Mr. Right (1987)

Making Mr. Right poster
Directed by
Susan Seidelman
Genre
science fiction film, science fiction comedy, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 44 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A publicist named Frankie is hired to teach an android how to act human for a marketing campaign. The android starts to develop feelings for her.

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What happens

Making Mr. 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. This film is primarily about the relationship between an android and the human woman he begins to fall in love with. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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