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Year:	1997
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Andrew Niccol
Genre:	Elitism, injustice, genetic engineering
Starring:	Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Tagline:	There Is No Gene For The Human Spirit.
Favourite line:	"I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science."

An intelligent slice of Hollywood sci-fi here, which is often a contradiction in terms.

Ethan Hawke plays Vincent Freeman, a man predisposed, by genetic tests done at birth, to be a low grade worker.
When he assumes the identity of a genetically superior individual, the very fabric of the separatist dystopian world of the near future is threatened.
He must be stopped before he gives other people ideas above their station.

Frightening and absorbing, this is a cautionary tale that is very relevant to the current developments in genetic enhancement / investigation.
A quality movie.