'Jurassic Park' and 'Gattaca' may be the best known films with genetic themes but are no means alone: since the 1980s there has been an explosion in the number of major Hollywood and other English-language fiction films in which genetic themes figure prominently.
Katherine Hepburn, in her first screen role, John Barrymore and Billie Burke star in an often overlooked melodrama of mental illness and eugenics. 01/12/05
