A bizarre and awful... something or other. I guess the best way to describe it is "80s movie." It kind of starts off as a romantic comedy with some science fiction pieces, but it drifts into a weird melodrama as it nears the end. Peter O'Toole stars and really isn't that bad, but he can't possibly elevate this terrible script. He plays a professor who does odd, possibly illegal experiments. He wants to clone his long dead wife, for one. He hires Vincent Spano as his research assistant, but Spano doesn't do much besides fall for fellow student Virginia Madsen (who was quite cute at 24). O'Toole meets up with self-described nymphomaniac Mariel Hemmingway, who agrees to donate an egg so O'Toole can regrow his wife in a test tube. Hemmingway sets her sights on becoming O'Toole's wife (I guess Woody Allen was too young for her?). The comedy is lame. The drama elicits more laughs. Near the end, Madsen randomly falls into a coma and Spano overacts by her side. Hemmingway is really annoying in her 1980s proto-manic pixie dreamgirl role. David Ogden Stiers makes for an uninteresting villain. Just a huge mess.
