VHS or DVD format.
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Entry for Girl, Interrupted
Review by Roger Ebert
Girl, Interrupted, novel by Susanna Kaysen (the author's autobiographical tale of a year spent in a mental hospital in the 1960s)
VHS format.
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Entry The People Vs. Larry Flynt
Review by Roger Ebert
The House of God, novel by Samuel Shem (a classic... funny and tragic tale of young doctors surviving their residency through a combination of humour, sex, and degradation of patients)
Gattaca
(movie, 1997, starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman)
VHS
or DVD
format.
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Entry for Gattaca
Review by Roger Ebert
"...a novel about the issues confronting women going through menopause in a society that values youth and fertility..."
A tale of reproductive slavery set in a futuristic, fascist America...
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Entry for The Handmaid's Tale
Review by Roger Ebert
The quintessential tale of corporate greed...
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Base Entry for Wall Street
Review by Roger Ebert
The
Insider
(movie, 1999, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe)
VHS
or
DVD
format.
True
story of tobacco executive- turned- whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand...
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Entry for The Insider
Review by Roger Ebert
A novel about the perils of genetic engineering, from an award-winning
author.
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about this book.]
VHS or DVD format.
A thriller about cloning technology used
for evil ends...
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entry for The Boys from Brazil
A novel by one of the foremost science fiction writers of our time...about a group of people who, through selective breeding, extend human lifespan beyond 200 years.
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entry for Lorenzo's Oil
Review by Roger Ebert
"The true story of one woman's struggle against a narrow-minded medical establishment."
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Movie Database entry for
First
Do No Harm
"A story about legal ethics and corporate corruption."
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Movie Database entry for The Rainmaker
Review by Roger Ebert
VHS or DVD format
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entry for The Net
Review by Roger Ebert
VHS or DVD format
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entry for Hackers
Review by Roger Ebert
Dark
Inheritance, a novel by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
(2001)
"...ethics of experimentation in genetic engineering..."
VHS or DVD format
"A day in the life of a big-city newspaper, and a gripping tale of media ethics."
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entry for The Paper
Review by Roger Ebert
"...genetic engineering and human immortality..."
VHS or VHS Widescreen or DVD
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entry for Saving Private Ryan
Review by Roger Ebert
"A collection of short stories, published between 1964 and 1990, about today's hottest ethical issue..."
DVD Format
A tale of biotechnology gone wrong. In the words of Jeff Goldblum's character, "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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entry for Jurassic Park
Review
by Roger Ebert
Non-fiction: a philosopher examines ethical themes in Star Trek.
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of this book.
A man's struggle between obligations to his family and the obligations of a law-abiding citizen.
Summary: Lt. Worf is removed from active duty after a severe injury leaves him paralyzed from the waist down. Although a neuro-geneticist is called in to examine Worf, Dr. Crusher believes the paralysis will be permanent. Convinced that no Klingon should live as an object of pity or shame, Worf asks Riker to assist in his ceremonial suicide. Against Dr. Crusher's wishes, the neuro-geneticist tells Worf about a dangerous experimental surgery...
