Creator

• USA • 1985 • 107m •

• Directed by: Ivan Passer. • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner, Karen Kopins, Kenneth Tigar, Elsa Raven, Lee Kessler, Rance Howard, Ellen Geer, Ian Wolfe. • Music by: Sylvester Levay.

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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It was a late night back in the 1980's when I sat down with my now deceased father and watched an unknown movie entitled "The Creator". I changed that evening because so many issues about faith and future were summed up in the relationships and the softness of the movie. I still show it in the VHS version to my students in my trainings as a family therapist. Some of the negative reviews are clearly not understanding the depth of the movie and the dynamics that play out as truth becoming simple and yet so profound. As an alumni of Duquesne University, there is quantitative research and qualitative research. If you dismiss this classic story then the "identified villain" is your sponsor of quantitative research and your pursuit of "small pictures" I hope will feed your confused soul. Fear in the place of emotional integrity happens everyday when we justify our "spectator" ship as goal when the game is on the field. Peter was never a struggling actor in his career and to imply that is just foolish ignorance. To follow quality in life's research is the point to the picture. To criticize a messy kitchen after a good meal is just ungrateful and a dis-ease of today's pathetic stance in society. Mr. Spano, Ms. Madsen and Ms. Hemmingway showed human qualities, not cookie cutter textbook acting.

If the opportunity would present itself, I would love the chance to assist in the sequel to this heart-expanding movie.

Always a hand raised to Peter and his crew in the making of this gem of a movie experience.

Review by robmac-520-607818 from the Internet Movie Database.

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