BEFORE SUNRISE

GENRE:  Romance/ Drama
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
DIRECTOR:  Richard Linklater
WRITER:  Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan

PLOT:  A young man meets a parisien lady on a train in his last night in Vienna, after having convinced her to walk the town with him until his flight early the next day, they have a perfectly romantic evening with many interesting discussions.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Before Sunset, 2 Days In Paris, Midnight In Paris, Paris Je T'Aime

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BEFORE SUNSET

GENRE:  Romance/ Drama
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
DIRECTOR:  Richard Linklater
WRITER:  Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Kim Krizan

PLOT:  Nine years after having last seen each other in Vienna Jesse and Celine meet again in Paris, and this time they have until sunset.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Before Sunrise, 2 Days In Paris, Midnight In Paris

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REALITY BITES

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1994
CAST:  Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo
DIRECTOR:  Ben Stiller
WRITER:  Helen Childress

PLOT:  Set in the 1990s about a group of recent college graduates who are challenged by facing the real world.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Dazed And Confused, Chasing Amy, The Man In The Moon

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TAKING LIVES

GENRE:  Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland
DIRECTOR:  D.J. Caruso
WRITER:  Michael Pye, Jon Bokenkamp,

PLOT:  Illeana, an FBI profiler is called on to catch a serial killer.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Se7en, Silence Of The Lambs, Copycat, Memento

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DEAD POET'S SOCIETY

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  1989
CAST:  Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
DIRECTOR:  Peter Weir
WRITER:  Tom Schulman

PLOT:  A unconventional English professor teaching in an all-boy's private school inspires his student to love poetry and to live.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Good Will Hunting, Poetic Justice, Patch Adams

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TRAINING DAY

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama
MADE:  2001
CAST:  Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn
DIRECTOR:  Antoine Fuqua
WRITER:  David Ayer

PLOT:  A rookie narcotics officer gets paired with an unconventional detective on his first day of training. 

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Collateral, The Departed, Man On Fire

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GATTACA

GENRE:  Science fiction/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1997
CAST:  Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
DIRECTOR:  Andrew Niccol
WRITER:  Andrew Niccol

PLOT:  Set in the future where being genetically inferior affects the rest of your life a man with a dream to travel into space makes a deal with a crippled man who has inferior genes to swap identities.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Equilibrium, The Island, Blade Runner

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