Description
Gattaca DVD 1997 / Directed by Andrew Niccol / Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law
UPC 5999010443615
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN HUNGARY
AUDIO: English 2.1, English 5.1, German 5.1
SUBTITLES: Hungarian, English, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian
Total Runtime: 102 minutes
English Summary:
Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of going into space.
The film draws on concerns over reproductive technologies that facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society. It also explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it can and does govern lives. Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.
The film's title is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA. It was a 1997 nominee for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
The film flopped at the box office, but it received generally positive reviews and has since gained a cult following.
Hungarian Summary:
Végre itt a tökéletes világ, ahol a gyerekek génsebészeti úton jönnek létre, és így mindegyikük előre megtervezett, hibátlan példány. Van azonban még néhány természetes körülmények között fogant egyed is. Ők a társadalom számkivetettjei.
Vincent Freeman élete sem kémcsőben kezdődött, ő mégsem adja fel álmát, hogy egy nap űrhajós lesz. Ennek elérésére a genetikai elit egy tagjának személyazonosságát ölti magára és azonnal megkezdheti az űrhajóskiképzést Gattacában.
Ekkor kezd csak beindulni az élete. Öszszeismerkedik egy lánnyal is.
Azonban gyilkosság történik Gattacában. A nagy erőkkel meginduló nyomozás őt is leleplezheti, hiszen a nyomok arra utalnak, hogy egy "tökéletlen" emberi lény volt a tettes.
A két főszereplő, Ethan Hawke (Szép remények, Holt költők társasága, Életben maradtak) és Uma Thurman (Bosszúállók, Batman és Robin, Ponyvaregény) között a film forgatása során szerelem szövődött. Azóta összeházasodtak, néhány hónapja pedig megszületett első gyermekük is - természetes úton.
Cast / Szereplők
- Ethan Hawke as Vincent Anton Freeman, impersonating Jerome Eugene MorrowUma Thurman as Irene Cassini
- Mason Gamble as young Vincent
- Chad Christ as teenage Vincent
- Jude Law as Jerome Eugene Morrow
- Loren Dean as Anton FreemanGore Vidal as Director Josef
- Vincent Nielson as young Anton
- William Lee Scott as teenage Anton
- Xander Berkeley as Dr. Lamar
- Jayne Brook as Marie Freeman
- Elias Koteas as Antonio Freeman
- Maya Rudolph as Delivery nurse
- Blair Underwood as Geneticist
- Ernest Borgnine as Caesar
- Tony Shalhoub as German
- Alan Arkin as Detective Hugo
- Dean Norris as Cop on the Beat
- Ken Marino as Sequencing technician
- Cynthia Martells as Cavendish
- Gabrielle Reece as Gattaca Trainer
Directed by | Andrew Niccol |
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Written by | Andrew Niccol |
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Music by | Michael Nyman |
Cinematography | Sławomir Idziak |
Edited by | Lisa Zeno Churgin |
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Jersey Films
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |