Wonderful character development!

Just perfect...

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A bizarre and awful... something or other. I guess the best way to describe it is "80s movie." It kind of starts off as a romantic comedy with some science fiction pieces, but it drifts into a weird melodrama as it nears the end. Peter O'Toole stars and really isn't that bad, but he can't possibly elevate this terrible script. He plays a professor who does odd, possibly illegal experiments. He wants to clone his long dead wife, for one. He hires Vincent Spano as his research assistant, but Spano doesn't do much besides fall for fellow student Virginia Madsen (who was quite cute at 24). O'Toole meets up with self-described nymphomaniac Mariel Hemmingway, who agrees to donate an egg so O'Toole can regrow his wife in a test tube. Hemmingway sets her sights on becoming O'Toole's wife (I guess Woody Allen was too young for her?). The comedy is lame. The drama elicits more laughs. Near the end, Madsen randomly falls into a coma and Spano overacts by her side. Hemmingway is really annoying in her 1980s proto-manic pixie dreamgirl role. David Ogden Stiers makes for an uninteresting villain. Just a huge mess.

I loved the movie. I don't claim that it's perfect or even that it's great art. I don't care. I feel that it conveyed the longing for love better than almost anything I've seen.Vincent Spano's ethnic looks and convincing innocence are a winning combination in this one. Corey Haim was one of the only other people of that era who could convey fresh innocence, ableit in a younger form. But here, Spano does it as a graduate student.Virginia Madsen is stunningly fresh-faced and seems to have no makeup on.Most of these reviews have been about Peter O'toole. OK, first off, we should be aware that those of us who are not English are intrigued by his English accent, because to us it seems charming. To a Brit, it may seem rather normal and not affect their impression at all.But for me it wasn't his accent that exuded charm. It was his facial expressions when he was listening to someone else talk. His portrayal of the character's empathy and loneliness was brilliant.I also enjoyed the woodsy college setting of U.C. Santa Cruz, the classical music, the portrayal of a professor's lifestyle, and the beach setting.People are complaining about the soundtrack, but I liked it. It fit the time period and added to the wonderment of fresh love.I did feel like there were some awkward acting moments for both Spano and Hemingway, but I got through them. I think they should have made the Mariel Hemingway character a bit older and sweeter, so that perhaps O'toole really could have taken her seriously and it wouldn't have creeped us out.The message that we are much more than our bodily form came across with feeling,without slamming home the point.What I also noticed, that no one else has mentioned, is the cycle of life. O'toole had his chance for young love and now it was someone else's chance. You can't go backward. There will always be a new young person in front of you, living out what you once had, or perhaps what you never had and wish you could have another chance at. Such is life.

This is hands down my favorite film! I rarely watch a film more than once, but 'Creator' is a film that I have watched over and over again and will never tire of it or the feelings it provokes.I don't think I can top the reviews already written and was delighted to know that others felt the way that I did about this film.Romantic, heartwarming, profound, funny, thought-provoking are just a few words that come to mind to describe this film. The character's all work so well together and the film follows the book very closely.What can I say about Peter O'Toole that hasn't been said before, he is truly at the top of my list for greatest actor in the industry. A sexy man in his 70's? Yep! I hope our screen's will be graced yet again with another movie by this fine actor.For those who have not seen this under-rated film, try to get a copy of it for your classic film library. Be prepared to laugh, cry and think when seeing this delightful, profound film. This is a film you can sit down and watch with you children and grandchildren.....and dear "Lucy", that we all could be loved as this "character" was loved.

It had been years since I saw this film - I forgot how much I loved it.This film features a great performance from its cast most especially that of Peter O'Toole & Virginia Madsen.O'Toole is magic in this film, the emotion he feels at the loss of his late wife all apparent yet he is torn with the emotions he now feels for Hemingway's "Meli". Hemingway also is very good in this film, as the comical nymphomaniac ...Madsen in this film she is as beautiful and magical as she was in the 80s as she is radiant now in recent films.This is fiction, a movie, but you feel as if the love between Madsen and Vincent Spano is real. You laugh when they laugh you are heartbroken when they are heartbroken. You feel their love and you feel their pain.David Ogden Stiers gives a good performance as the stuffy but talented villain too.I liked this film when I first saw it and that has not changed I love this film. Is it for everyone? Possibly not as people are different their tastes different but for most movie lovers this film is worth watching. Heartwarming and heartfelt you will laugh you will cry.