You can now watch the 1997 science fiction film Gattaca for free on Hulu.com. Critically acclaimed, but a box office dud, you might want to revisit the film on this lazy Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
A smart stylish thriller laced with high-wire suspense. In Gattaca only the strong succeed and the strong are genetically pre-selected at birth. But when one man dares to defy the system he gets caught in a web of lies corruption and murder. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Alan Arkin, Uma Thurman and Jude Law.
Here are a few cool trivia tidbits from IMDb:
The Marin County Civic Center was used as the filming location of the Gattaca Corporation. The location was also used in George Lucas's THX 1138. The Civic Center was designed by American star architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, and remains the largest Wright design ever constructed.
When Gattaca was first released, as part of a marketing campaign there were adverts for people to call up and have their children genetically engineered. Thousands of people called, wanting to have their offspring genetically engineered.
The first draft of the screenplay had no title. The film was shot under the working title "The Eighth Day", a reference to the Biblical creation story, which states that the earth was created in six days and on the seventh day, God rested. The film was originally going to be released with this title but it ended up being contested bya Belgian film, Huitième jour, Le which had already been released in the US as "The Eight Day".
