Latchis Arts, Brooks Memorial Library and Friends of Brooks Memorial Library announce the launch of a Sci Fi Film Series, beginning with GATTACA on Sunday, June 7, at 4:00pm. Admission is by donation.

Inspired by Brooks Memorial Library’s Sci-Fi Reading Group, the film series will convene monthly to watch great movies from the sci-fi genre. People are invited to stay after the screenings for a conversation about the film.

Released in 1997, GATTACA stars Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman, who has always fantasized about traveling into outer space, but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior in-valid. He decides to fight his fate by purchasing the genes of Jerome Morrow (Jude Law), a laboratory-engineered valid. He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene (Uma Thurman). An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.

Rated PG-13, GATTACA r3uns 1 hour and 46 minutes. It has been called, “Among the very best of all the original ‘thoughtful’ sci-fi movies out there.”