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Gattaca.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: DX25239 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentPublication details: Sydney, NSW : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2008.Edition: Deluxe editionDescription: 1 DVD-video (approx. 98 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmUniform titles:
  • Gattaca (Motion picture : 1997)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 23
Production credits:
  • Produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher ; Written and directed by Andrew Niccol ; Director of photography, Slawomir Idziak ; Editor, Lisa Zeno Chorgin ; Music, Michael Nyman.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Gore Vidal, Ernest Borgnine.Summary: Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is 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.
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DVD Melbourne Athenaeum Library DVD GAT Available 068392
Total reserves: 0

DVD ; PAL ; Region 4.

Special features: Deleted scenes, filmographies, photo gallery, featurette, poster gallery and the original theatrical trailer.

Originally released: Columbia Pictures, c1997.

Rated: M.

Produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher ; Written and directed by Andrew Niccol ; Director of photography, Slawomir Idziak ; Editor, Lisa Zeno Chorgin ; Music, Michael Nyman.

Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Gore Vidal, Ernest Borgnine.

Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is 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.

DVD ; Dolby 5.1 digital sound ; Region 4.

In English and French with subtitle in English, French, Dutch and Arabic.

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