A guy who did a bunch of stuff. Steve De Jarnatt is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and short story author. He is best known for writing and directing the 1988 nuclear apocalypse thriller Miracle Mile and the film Cherry 2000. De Jarnatt is also a television director and has worked on such programs as Lizzie McGuire, Flight 29 Down, ER and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. His short story, Rubiaux Rising, appeared in the 2009 edition of The Best American Short Stories, as selected by author Alice Sebold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve De Jarnatt, licensed...
Cherry 2000
In 2017, Sam Treadwell lives in a society where romance, economics and technology have evolved into a state where relationships of all sorts are commodities. When he damages his animatronic wife, Cherry 2000, he hires E. Johnson (Melanie Griffith), to guide him across a dangerous apocalyptic wasteland to an abandoned manufacturing warehouse where he hopes to find a duplicate model. Driving through the desert, they encounter Lester, the tyrannical overlord of the wasteland, before they manage to escape from him and his henchmen. Along their journey, Sam discovers that the perfect woman is real flesh and blood.