Gattaca

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, et al.

Product Description

Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Hawke stars as Vincent, an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent's dreams steadily unravel.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 043396238886
• Release Date: May 1993
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Director: Andrew Niccol
• Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin, Loren Dean, Jayne Brook, Elias Koteas, Chad Christ, William Lee Scott
• Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; NTSC; Special Edition; Subtitled; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

"I never saved anything for the swim back." - Vincent

First, I must point out that the title of this movie is GATTICA, all uppercase. 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. So the movie is GATTICA and not Gattica. Ten years after the movie, they have gone and done it. We now know the genetic makeup of human beings. Some Job descriptions even say without consideration of age, race, religion, or genetics. We also have electric cars and wrist radios. This is no longer sci-fi; it is speculative fiction. Or at least it is speculative. Anyway, I have a friend who had a back problem in his youth. They left some dye in him, and it was spotted during a job interview physical for a desk job; you guessed it. Anyway, this is a spectacular film. The soundtrack helped support the movie. They did a good job of picking the actors. The characters are believable. Uma did not even have to show her Thurman’s. Ethan did a convincing transformation, and Jude was good enough that you almost thought the film was about him. The scenes are breathtaking. I was most impressed with the sunrise on the solar panels and the swim competition. Two points to look for on your second viewing are: 1. Several times, the brothers compete physically and logically. Even with his handicapped origin, Ethan Hawke,” Vincent Freeman,” surpasses his brother Loren Dean “Anton.” 2. Jude Law, “Jerome Eugene Morrow,” Was not without ambition. He was disappointed that his advantage was not advantageous enough for the gold medal and received his gold through the actions of Vincent. Vincent, who was conceived in the Riviera, as a child of God (taking their chances), must compete in a world where all the negative genetic dispositions are usually removed, as this was his brother's case. Due to genetics, Vincent is tagged for failure at birth. To overcome this social barrier and obtain his goal of going into space, he borrows the genes of an athlete gone astray. The director where he is working (GATTACA) is killed as the last obstacle to the mission. Will Vincent be found out? Irene (Uma Thurman) suspects the number one candidate for the space trip, Jerome, of the murder. She never suspects that he is Vincent. The bottom line is that if you aren't genetically correct, the movie may scare you. There are many different technical presentations of this film, from original VHS to super-bit to Blu-ray, each with its advantages and disadvantages. While this may affect visuals and sound, it does not modify the story or acting.