Trivia

John Malkovich, Glenne Headly and Laurie Metcalf had been acting together since the late 1970s as members of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Lead cast members Glenne Headly and John Malkovich were married between 1982 and 1988.

The first picture that director Susan Seidelman directed after the box-office hit movie Recherche Susan désespérément (1985).

Director Susan Seidelman worked with the film's two screenwriters Floyd Byars and Laurie Frank on several drafts of the script so as to change the focus of the film away from being a Frankenstein-type story to a Pygmalion-style theme.

Et la femme créa l'homme parfait (1987) is an American science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman; starring John Malkovich as Jeff Peters/Ulysses and Ann Magnuson as Frankie Stone. It is a loose remake of the Soviet science fiction film Evo Zvali Robert (1967) (His Name Was Robert). This film is primarily about the misadventures between an android and a woman.