After building a space-bound android in his image, a disturbed and emotionless young scientist hires a beautiful, perky PR-woman named Frankie to teach his robot about human behavior. Then the unimaginable happens and the andriod, Ulysses, falls in love with Frankie. She's confused about love herself and denies that Ulysses can have feelings for her.

John Malkovich, Glenne Headly, and Laurie Metcalf, have been acting together since the late-'70s as members of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Frankie Stone:
For reasons I can't go into and you don't wanna know about, I have to go to this wedding, and I need a date, and you'd be the exact, perfect guy. Now, this isn't a proposition; I just wanna know if you might think about maybe going with me.


Jeff Peters:
A wedding? I don't know; I'm not very good with people.


Frankie Stone:
Oh, they're not people, they're just my family.

Continuity: Dr. Peters says that Ulysses is reacting to Frankie oddly because Ulysses has never been exposed to a woman. Yet when Frankie is reviewing older video of Ulysses, a woman can clearly be seen at his birthday party.

Performed by Gwen Guthrie
Courtesy of Polydor Records
Music Supervisors
Lynn Geller
Kathryn Schenker