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Original release / air date: 3 April 1987
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Production company / studio: Barry & Enright Productions
Distributor / platform: Orion Pictures
Artificial character(s): Ulysses
Performer(s): John Malkovich
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot Double

Overview

Scientist Jeff Peters builds Ulysses, a human-looking android duplicate of himself, for a long-duration space mission. Public-relations specialist Frankie Stone is hired to teach Ulysses human social behaviour, but the android develops emotions and falls in love with her.

ASFR Content

Ulysses is a convincing human-looking robot double of his creator and spends much of the film learning emotion and social behaviour. The story includes mistaken identity, programming, an incident in which Ulysses literally loses his head, and a wedding sequence where he short-circuits and falls into a swimming pool.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

Ulysses impersonates Jeff Peters

Ulysses leaves the laboratory while posing as his human creator, demonstrating how convincingly the android can function as Jeff's physical double.

Character(s): Ulysses
Scene 2
Major

Ulysses literally loses his head

During his attempts to navigate human relationships outside the laboratory, Ulysses suffers a conspicuous mechanical mishap in which his head comes off.

Character(s): Ulysses
Features:
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

Ulysses short-circuits at the wedding

After a fight at the wedding, Ulysses short-circuits and crashes into the swimming pool, publicly exposing his vulnerability as a machine.

Character(s): Ulysses

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