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Creator

1985, Movie, R, 108 mins

Creator: Review

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Peter O'Toole gives a lively, compelling performance as an eccentric but warm-hearted Nobel Prize-winning professor. He is obsessed with the notion that he can somehow resurrect, through cloning, his dead wife, who has been lying in her grave for 30 years. A scatterbrained, nymphomaniac undergraduate, Mariel Hemingway, develops a mad crush on O'Toole, but he's oblivious to her sentiments, caring more about his dead wife than anyone living. She aids O'Toole, as does a reluctant but impressionable Vincent Spano, an assistant stolen from another department. Spano's department is headed by O'Toole's rival professor, David Ogden Stiers, who is trying to prove that O'Toole has also stolen equipment, supplies, and money to finance his necrophilic ambitions. The film starts off cheery and bright, with many a pithy statement made by the colorful O'Toole, reaching a level of cornball cuteness that rarely finds its way into Hollywood these days. Underneath the squeaky-clean surface, however, is a sense of morality and an unfaltering belief in the magic of love and devotion. Though O'Toole is wonderfully quirky and Hemingway displays a certain innocence, Spano delivers the film's finest performance. The result is a beautiful, albeit offbeat, love story that simply doesn't fit into the Hollywood mainstream. leave a comment
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