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'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.

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Genetics meets Hollywood. 27/03/06
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Like buses; you wait for ages, then dozens come at once. 21/03/06
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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
GM cinema? No thanks, we're film critics. 23/03/06
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law star in Andrew Niccol's futuristic story of in-valids and de-gene-erates. 26/11/05
Cloning and conspiracy: when Arnie met Arnie. 25/11/05
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