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Gattaca

film by Niccol [1997]

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Hawke

In Ethan Hawke
…Thurman in the sci-fi thriller Gattaca; the couple married in 1998 and divorced in 2004. Hawke’s other films in the 1990s include Great Expectations (1998), a modern take on the classic novel by Charles Dickens; Linklater’s The Newton Boys (1998), about the adventures of a gang of bank robbers in…
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Thurman

In Uma Thurman: Career
…of the science fiction film Gattaca (1997), Thurman met costar Ethan Hawke, and they married in 1998. (Thurman had previously been married to actor Gary Oldman, from 1990 to 1992.) Hawke and Thurman had two children, Maya (who became a model and actress) and Levon, before divorcing in 2005.
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