Creator (film)
| Creator | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ivan Passer |
| Written by | Jeremy Leven |
| Produced by | Stephen J. Friedman |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Robbie Greenberg |
| Edited by | Bill Phillips (supervising editor), Jimmy Ling, Hal Sanders (editors), Michael A. Warner (assistant editor) |
| Music by | Sylvester Levay |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,349,607[1] |
Creator is a 1985 film directed by Ivan Passer, starring Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Mariel Hemingway, and Virginia Madsen. It is based on a book of the same title by Jeremy Leven.
Plot
Dr. Harry Wolper is an eccentric medical professor teaching at a small southern California college who is obsessed with making a clone of his wife Lucy who died in childbirth 30 years earlier. Harry hires Boris Lafkin, a struggling pre-med student as his personal assistant to help him with his experiments by obtaining lab equipment and working in his backyard shed in exchange for which Harry gives Boris love life advice in courting an attractive coed named Barbara who slowly becomes smitten with Boris. To continue his research into cloning, Harry meets and employes a young woman, named Meli, who practically moves in with him on an agreement to contribute her ovary sample as part of the cloning progress. Meli slowly falls for the much older Harry who begins to question his ethics and vision of true love. Meanwhile, a rival of Harry's, fellow medical professor Dr. Sid Kuhlenbeck, tries to investigate and hinder Harry's cloning plans as part of a ploy to remove Harry from the university to take over Harry's lab for himself.
Cast
- Peter O'Toole: Dr. Harry Wolper
- Mariel Hemingway: Meli
- Vincent Spano: Boris Lafkin
- Virginia Madsen: Barbara Spencer
- David Ogden Stiers: Dr. Sid Kuhlenbeck
- John Dehner: Paul
- Kenneth Tigar: Pavlo
- Rance Howard: Mr. Spencer
- Ellen Geer: Mrs. Spencer
- Jeff Corey: Dean Harrington
- Eve McVeagh: Woman with monkey (final screen appearance)
- Karen Kopins: Lucy
- William Bassett : Dr. Sutter
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