Circuitry Man is a 1990 American post apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Steven Lovy and starring Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Vernon Wells.
A woman attempts to smuggle a suitcase of contraband drug/chips from Los Angeles to the underground remnants of New York City, while eluding both police and gangsters.
Along the way, she is aided by a romantic bio-mechanical pony-tailed android and pursued by Plughead, a villain with the ability to tap into people's minds.
Circuitry Man was adapted from a student film Steven Lovy made while attending UCLA.
[1] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "nothing if not derivative" but "consistently distinctive and funny".