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| Directed by | Ivan Passer |
| Produced by | Stephen J. Friedman |
| Written by | Jeremy Leven |
| Music by | Sylvester Levay |
| Cinematography | Robbie Greenberg |
| Editing by | Bill Phillips (supervising editor), Jimmy Ling, Hal Sanders (editors), Michael A. Warner (assistant editor) |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 20, 1985 |
| Running time | 107 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
Harry Wolper (played by O'Toole) is a Nobel Prize laureate in biology, obsessed by the possibility to clone his beloved late wife, Lucy. Helped by the student Boris Lafkin (Spano) and an eccentric egg-donor girl, Meli (Hemingway), Dr. Wolper finally succeeds in the cloning process, but the events leading to this achievement create strong bonds between himself and Meli, and also between Spano and his schoolmate, Barbara (Madsen). In the end, Harry realizes that he is in love with Meli, and interrupts the cloning process dropping the last cells of Lucy into the sea.