Making Mr. Right

1987

99 Min

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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DIR Susan Seidelman

CAST John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Laurie Metcalf, Polly Bergen, Hart Bochner, Polly Draper, Christian Clemenson, Ben Masters, Harsh Nayyar, Susan Berman, Merwin Goldsmith, Sid Raymond

Synopsis

When image consultant Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s (John Malkovich) “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human being because he’s totally perfect. Meanwhile, she tends to the problems of her dramatic best friend, Trish (Glenne Headly). Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) directs this comedy set in the 1980s; Laurie Metcalf co-stars.

Director

Susan Seidelman

American filmmaker Susan Seidelman majored in art and fashion design at Drexel University. She worked at an independent TV station in Philadelphia before enrolling at NYU’s film school. Her feminist-oriented student films, made between 1976 and 1977, won several awards and plenty of industry attention. Seidelman’s first feature, the independently produced Smithereens (1983), made very little headway in mainstream theaters, but was a hit on the festival circuit. On the strength of Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Seidelman was lauded as one of Hollywood’s few “bankable” female directors; the film’s success was probably due more to the supporting performance of Madonna than to its director. Seidelman’s next two films, Making Mr Right (1987) and Cookie (1989), failed to match the standard set by Desperately Seeking Susan. In 1989’s She-Devil, Seidelman attempted to do for Roseanne Barr what she had done for Madonna — – that is, transform Roseanne into a viable film personality. But She… read more