Making Mr. Right

A reclusive scientist, Jeff Peters (Malkovich), builds a robot, Ulysses, which looks exactly like himself and is set to go on a long-term space mission. Since the (real) scientist seems to lack all emotions, he is unable to program his (lack of) emotion into his automaton, and an eccentric woman is hired to "educate" the robot on human behavior. In the end, she falls in love--but is it with the robot or with Mr. Right?

Grosses

Domestic (100%)
$1,584,970
Summary Details
DistributorOrion Pictures
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Opening$444,756
296 theaters
Release DateApr 10, 1987
Running Time1 hr 38 min
GenresComedy Romance Sci-Fi
In Release266 days/38 weeks
Widest Release296 theaters
DateRankWeekly %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeek
Apr 10-1614$686,041-296-$2,317$686,0411