Creator

Saw it years ago and remembered liking it, but I'm so glad I watched again. A beautiful movie, essentially about love, with an emotional music score. O'Toole is excellent!

This was pretty good when I was a kid. I seem to remember some kind of electric-shocking bed which was hilarious when I was a kid, but insane to think about now.

Melodramatic film whose only high point is really only Peter O'Toole's turn as a biologist intent on cloning his late wife. And even that plot could have been better.

Brilliant and hilarious

Sentimental and eccentric comedy of little interest.

After Cutter's Way, Ivan Passer went onto this, a comedy-drama sci-fi about a mad professor (Peter O'Toole) trying to clone his deceased wife, also starring Mariel Hemingway and a very young Virginia Madsen. It's a charming and light-hearted film, helped immensely by O'Toole, but sadly I have to remove a mark for the sudden turn at the end into an unnecessary plot event, one which feels emotionally cheap for a film that was trying its best beforehand.

The painful process by which the scientist comes to decide against playing God and settle for being a mere human (and, if not quite a full-fledged creator, at any rate a father) is full of authentic pathos. But though the movie is happiest in the pathetic vein, it spends much time poking around in other veins -- student romance, intra-faculty rivalry -- and with much less success.