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  • Hawke praises Madonna for gypsy support - 2 November 2009
    -Actor Ethan Hawke has praised Madonna for standing up for Romania's gypsy community - insisting the singer "transcended" her pop star status by speaking out about their plight.- -The Training Day star campaigns as part of his mother Leslie's charity Ovidiu Rom to en


  • Hawke to star in, direct and write new movie - 10 February 2006
    Renaissance man Ethan Hawke is to direct a film starring himself, written by himself and based on his own novel. - -The Hottest State will not be the Gattaca and Training Day star's debut behind the camera, after directing Chelsea Walls, which featured Uma Thurman, N

Ethan Hawke - what members say


  • Dead Poets Society
  • Dead Poets Society review by A customer from cheshire
    Rated - 2 stars dead poets should stay dead 18 May 2005
    ...best robin williams film i have seen. good will hunting is much better. a young Ethan Hawke hardly impressed in an overall uninspiring film. Also the ending left me speech...  
  • Gattaca
  • Gattaca review by from London, UK
    Rated - 5 stars serene and nihilistic 26 October 2004
    ...st list in the above details, since he is one of the three main characters with Ethan Hawke and Una Thurman. Superb casting, all consistently underplay their parts with...  
  • Training Day
  • Training Day review by from UK
    Rated - 3 stars Good perfomances in an average movie 6 July 2004
    ... a movie that starts off well but eventually becomes just another cop movie. Ethan Hawke is good in a return to his long lost form but Denzil is very engaging as the le...  

Ethan Hawke - filmography


  • Daybreakers (2010)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Willem Dafoe,  Sam Neill
    Director: Michael Spierig,  Peter Spierig
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7 members
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  • The Hottest State on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Laura Linney,  Mark Webber
    Director: Ethan Hawke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Days before his 21st birthday, William (Mark Webber), an actor, meets and quickly falls madly in love with Sara (Catalina Sandino Moreno), a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room, to a snowbound weekend in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 239 members
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  • Lord Of War on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Ethan Hawke,  Jared Leto
    Director: Andrew Niccol
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on actual events, this black comedy-drama stars Nicholas Cage as international arms smuggler Uri Orlov. The story follows Uri from his humble beginnings as a Soviet immigrant in 1970s Brooklyn and peaks with his involvement in selling off the stockpiled arsenal of post-Cold War Ukraine to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 57,426 members
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  • Before Sunset on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Julie Delpy
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that followed, as the pair explored the spontaneous and unexpected in Vienna, ended on a train platform where they swore they'd meet again six ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 22,081 members
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  • Taking Lives on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Angelina Jolie,  Ethan Hawke,  Kiefer Sutherland
    Director: D.J. Caruso
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With superb investigative skills heightened by uncanny natural instincts, Iliana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is not a typical FBI profiler. This beautiful, no-nonsense Special Agent is a cut above the rest, which is why her old friend Captain Le Claire (Tcheky Karyo) calls her to assist his detectives ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 21,192 members
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  • The Jimmy Show on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Frank Whaley,  Carla Gugino
    Director: Frank Whaley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jimmy O'Brien leads a life of quiet desperation in northern New Jersey, living with his wheelchair-bound grandmother, his wife Annie, and his young daughter. A failed inventor, Jimmy's latest dead-end job is at a supermarket, where he stocks shelves with his friend Ray, an amiable pothead. But what ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 20 members
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  • Training Day - HD DVD Version (2001)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Denzel Washington
    Director: Antoine Fuqua
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Antoine Fuqua (THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, BAIT) turns up the intensity level with TRAINING DAY, a charged drama about police corruption in downtown Los Angeles. Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a well-intentioned young officer who thinks he's found his ticket to becoming a detective in the form of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 557 members
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  • Tape on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Uma Thurman,  Robert Sean Leonard
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Richard Linklater, known for directing films that take place over a one-day period (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, BEFORE SUNRISE), magnifies that concept even further with TAPE. Adapted from the Stephen Belber play, TAPE takes place in a Lansing, Michigan hotel room, where two old friends reunite ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,773 member
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  • Training Day on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Ethan Hawke,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Antoine Fuqua
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Antoine Fuqua (THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, BAIT) turns up the intensity level with TRAINING DAY, a charged drama about police corruption in downtown Los Angeles. Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a well-intentioned young officer who thinks he's found his ticket to becoming a detective in the form of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 19,551 members
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  • Waking Life on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Ethan Hawke,  Adam Goldberg
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Richard Linklater presents this computer-animated, dreamlike, meandering film about a college-age man (Wiley Wiggins) who floats in and out of a series of philosophical discussions and ethereal experiences, meeting an interesting cast of characters along the way. Each character that Wiley ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,771 members
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  • Hamlet on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Kyle MacLachlan,  Sam Shepard
    Director: Michael Almereyda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ethan Hawke stars in this modern update of Shakespeare's classic play. He portrays a young filmmaker in New York City who struggles to gain power of his deceased father's company, even as the new boss (Kyle MacLachlan) manages to take total control of the proceedings. Michael Almereyda's (NADJA) ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 815 members
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  • Snow Falling On Cedars on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Youki Kudoh,  Rick Yune
    Director: Scott Hicks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Australian director Scott Hicks's Snow Falling on Cedars is far removed from the character-driven, pure storytelling of his previous movie, Shine, and a comparative plunge into moody atmospherics. Action insinuates itself through the director's determined eye for watercolour composition and free-..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,109 member
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  • Gattaca on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Uma Thurman,  Jude Law
    Director: Andrew Niccol
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the 21st century, genetic engineering makes possible the creation of biologically superior human specimens ("valids"), who then grow to positions of power and prestige. Would-be astronaut Vincent(Ethan Hawke) born the old-fashioned way, can only hope for a janitorial position at the elite ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 18,491 members
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  • Quiz Show on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Paul Scofield,  Rob Morrow
    Director: Robert Redford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1958 when television quiz shows ruled the airwaves, Charles Van Doren was the wildly popular champion of a successful TV show called Twenty-One. A national celebrity who appeared on the covers of both Time and Life magazines, Van Doren was an American folk hero--the intellectual's answer to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,044 members
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  • Alive on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Vincent Spano,  Josh Hamilton
    Director: Frank Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    ALIVE is a gripping drama based on a true story. In October 1972, a plane chartered by a Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the snow-covered Andes Mountains. Many passengers are killed on contact, but most people survive--with only enough rations for a short time. Given the harsh climate and lack of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,111 members
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  • Reality Bites on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Winona Ryder,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ben Stiller made his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers. It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,948 members
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  • A Midnight Clear (1992)
    Starring: Peter Berg,  Kevin Dillon,  Arye Gross
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 47 members
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  • White Fang on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Klaus Maria Brandauer,  Seymour Cassel
    Director: Randal Kleiser
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young man tries to fulfill his father's dying wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon Valley. His journey begins when he meets a veteran goldminer who guides him to his father's claim. Along the way, he discovers a kindred spirit who will change his life forever...a wolf-dog named White Fang.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,072 members
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  • Explorers (1985)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Jason Presson,  River Phoenix
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This adventurous space tale stars Ethan Hawke (in his film debut at the age of 14) and young star River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. Ben Crandall (Hawke) is a young visionary ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 254 members
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  • What Doesn't Kill You
    Starring: Mark Ruffalo,  Ethan Hawke,  Amanda Peet
    Director: Brian Goodman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Brian and Paulie grow up like brothers on the gritty streets of south Boston. They do whatever it takes to survive, living by the code of their dog-eat-dog neighborhood. Petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses, and eventually, they fall under sway to organized crime boss Pat ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 6 members
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Ethan Hawke - watch online


  • Tape to Watch Now (2001)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Robert Sean Leonard,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 83 minutes
    Richard Linklater, known for directing films that take place over a one-day period (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, BEFORE SUNRISE), magnifies that concept even further with TAPE. Adapted from the Stephen Belber play, TAPE takes place in a Lansing, Michigan hotel room, where two old friends reunite ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 61 members
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  • Chelsea Walls to Watch Now (2001)
    Starring: Bianca Hunter,  Kevin Corrigan,  Rosario Dawson
    Director: Ethan Hawke
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 109 minutes
    n New York's storied Chelsea Hotel, a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer, and a young troubadour sort out their personal and artistic lives.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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Ethan Hawke facts

5 most recent films

Daybreakers - 3.5 stars
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead - 3.0 stars
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Fast Food Nation - 3.0 stars
The Hottest State - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Training Day - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Training Day - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Dead Poets Society - 3.5 stars
Dead Poets Society - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Lord Of War - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Jimmy Show - 2.0 stars
Brooklyn's Finest - 2.5 stars
Chelsea Walls - 2.5 stars
Dad - 3.0 stars
What Doesn't Kill You - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Sean Leonard - 6 times - show films
Julie Delpy - 3 times - show films
Uma Thurman - 3 times - show films
Denzel Washington - 3 times - show films
Mark Webber - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Richard Linklater - 8 times - show films
Antoine Fuqua - 4 times - show films
Andrew Niccol - 3 times - show films
Peter Weir - 2 times - show films
D.J. Caruso - 2 times - show films