Creator (film)

Creator

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ivan Passer
Produced by Stephen J. Friedman
Written by Jeremy Leven
Starring
Music by Sylvester Levay
Cinematography Robbie Greenberg
Edited by Bill Phillips (supervising editor), Jimmy Ling, Hal Sanders (editors), Michael A. Warner (assistant editor)
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
  • September 20, 1985 (1985-09-20)
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 employs 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

References

  1. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=creator.htm

External links

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