kayaker36 What's good about this picture? Some beautiful Santa Barbara backgrounds--where the cliffs meet the sea--and a couple of the supporting performances. A young Virginia Madsen is radiant as the student love interest to Vincent Spano. David Ogden Steiers is natural-- for once--and entirely credible as a neurologist and perennial adversary to the O'Toole character.Everything else is bad. Peter O'Toole looks like Death--cadaverously thin, pale as a corpse, full of jerky movements. He's fifty years old, for Pete's sake, and we're supposed to buy a romance between him and the nineteen year old free spirit **cum** egg donor played by Mariel Hemingway? And where Hugh Laurie ("House" on the Fox TV series) is eccentric, but undeniably macho in sneakers and tee shirt, O'Toole sports a Lord Fauntleroy wardrobe and is decidedly light in his loafers.Vincent Spano in the juvenile role tries hard but needs acting lessons. Tall, but no Ryan O'Neill with that prominent nose and eyes set too close together. And whose gay idea was it to put the short shorts on **him** for the lyrical, young-lovers-frolicking-on-the-beach scene?The script is another problem; not the story which at least is out of the ordinary but the dialog. There is just too much of it. O'Toole's character, in an Etonian accent, talks and talks and talks some more, about everything, ultimately about nothing. As a doctor he has even less credibility than as a love object.Regular viewers of the immensely popular series "House, M.D." will recognize the debt it owes to this movie.

Derek Williams I really tried to like this film about a doctor who has the possibility of a new life with a young woman if he can comes to terms with the death of his wife. I suppose this was to play like a quirky light romantic comedy but the theme is a little uncomfortable for me.But putting that aside, I found the dialog was too much like a stage play despite being based on a novel and also,the mediocre acting was embarrassing to watch especially by the young lead Vincent Spano.I have been sort of trying to catch up on all the eighties movies I missed during that decade. It has been my pet peeve that eighties nostalgia buffs seem to focus on the same core canon of films usually featuring the brat pack actors and actresses and neglecting the other films like Creator that have fallen through the cracks. But in the case of this feature I have to say I can understand it. Not all of these eighties films were magical and Creator is proof of this.

lueschow This is a wonderful movie that focuses on character development. The characters are quirky and entertaining. The science in this movie is relatively weak but this movie isn't about science. This is about love, loss, and coming to terms with the curves life throws you.Peter O'tool is Brilliant... I repeat Brilliant in this movie Muriel Hemmingway (Melly) is wonderfully portrayed and the rest of the actors/actresses played at the top of their game on this movie.Grab your girlfriend/boyfriend turn down the lights pop some popcorn and enjoy the show.Warning: There is some foul language and nudity in this movie so I don't recommend watching it with your 10 year old.

alienlabs When I first saw this movie I had to wait several days before realizing it was a "good movie". In the beginning it rather made me think to some teenage movie but I soon had to admit that it was getting much better than that.A teenage movie would put accent on romance, while "Creator" also remarks, somehow, the sexual side of relationships... making the whole movie feel like being more "honest" than the average. Situations are smart and funny, the characters are lovely. Dialogues are so well written that the movie has that certain "Instant Classic" feeling on its side: you can take almost any line from it and still it sounds like a funny quote.