The great Peter O'Toole is an eccentric scientist trying to clone his wife, Mariel Hemingway is the easily orgasmic young woman who provides the egg and an incredibly hot Virginia Madsen (the third time I saw her, after "Electric Dreams" and "Dune"; she was hot in the eighties, thank God for "Sideways" resurrecting her career)is Vincent Spano's love interest. The movie careens from science fiction to romantic comedy to drama and it's all tied together by a melancholic piano melody by Sylvester Levay.
I think the comedy was quite good but what made the movie memorable was this sense of sadness. Maybe it's because of the score, maybe it's because of the topic, when the characters deal with the loss of a loved one. Maybe because of Peter O'Toole.
I don't know what O'Toole had been through but occasionally when he isn't saying anything, when he just peers over his glasses in wordless comment over something silly, something tragic or something absolutely wonderful, he can convey a world-weary sympathy with that other person as if he's saying, "yes, that happened to me too."
I think the comedy was quite good but what made the movie memorable was this sense of sadness. Maybe it's because of the score, maybe it's because of the topic, when the characters deal with the loss of a loved one. Maybe because of Peter O'Toole.
I don't know what O'Toole had been through but occasionally when he isn't saying anything, when he just peers over his glasses in wordless comment over something silly, something tragic or something absolutely wonderful, he can convey a world-weary sympathy with that other person as if he's saying, "yes, that happened to me too."