Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He 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.
Production
Mid-century modern dystopia that still looks timeless.
Acting
Jude Law's bitter, brilliant wheelchair-bound performance.
Writing
Every line lands like a philosophy thesis with sex appeal.
Director
Andrew Niccol
Ethan Hawke
Vincent Freeman
Uma Thurman
Irene Cassini
Jude Law
Jerome Eugene Morrow
Alan Arkin
Detective Hugo
Loren Dean
Adult Anton Freeman
Gore Vidal
Director Josef
Tony Shalhoub
"German"
Ernest Borgnine
Caesar
Blair Underwood
Geneticist
Xander Berkeley
Dr. Lamar
Jayne Brook
Marie Freeman
Una Damon
Head Nurse
Elias Koteas
Antonio Freeman
Maya Rudolph
Delivery Nurse
Elizabeth Dennehy
Preschool Teacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title uses only the letters G, A, T, C—the four nucleotide bases of DNA.
Released the same year as Dolly the sheep's cloning, Gattaca eerily predicted CRISPR anxieties and genetic screening debates now dominating bioethics.
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