Nobel laureate Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole) is obsessed with a project to recreate his wife from cells he has kept since her death 30 years ago. He needs some assistance so he hires graduate student Boris (Vincent Spano). However Wolper is distracted not only by the attentions of Meli (Mariel Hemingway) but also by his attempts to set up Boris with Barbara (Virginia Madsen) a beautiful medical student. When Wolper's dream is finally destroyed Boris pleads with him to channel his talents into saving Barbara's life. This unique love story is guaranteed to make you laugh and cry.
Parts is the story of a man and a woman in love in a place full of lies deception death and danger. It is a story of a place called Clonus where nothing occurs by chance and everyone will die by the horror of freezing to be used later for their body parts. It is the story of the accidental love affair of Richard and Lena who are unwitting clones not people and of the doctors and guides and their lies and surveillance. But most of all it is the story of Richard who uncovers the truth and plots to escape. Parts is a film involving the realities of today's miracle science with the drama and shock of a horror thriller It is the story of what happens when science and nightmare merge.
Dr. Harry Wolper is a character. First he steals Boris a new student assistant by promising him a co-ed's phone number. Then he hijacks new high tech equipment for his own research confusing the other university researchers who can't see ""the big picture."" Harry has a plan he wants to clone his dead wife but first he needs an egg and a host. He mounts his search by stapling notices to every telephone pole in town from his bike which is how he meets Mili. As the year progresses he sees Boris' romance follow the same pattern as his own twenty-five years ago.
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