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Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and director. He made his feature film debut in 1985 with the science fiction movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society which is considered his breakthrough role. He then appeared in such films as White Fang (1991), A Midnight Clear (1992), and Alive (1993) before taking a role in the 1994 Generation X drama Reality Bites, for which he gained critical acclaim. In 1995, he starred in the romantic drama Before Sunrise, and later in its sequel Before Sunset (2004). In 2001, Hawke was cast as a rookie police officer in Training Day, for which he received a Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca (1997), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). Hawke has appeared in many theater productions including The Seagull, Henry IV, Hurlyburly, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter's Tale and The Coast of Utopia, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination. He made his directorial debut with the 2002 independent feature Chelsea Walls. In November 2007 Hawke directed his first play, Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We Want. Aside from acting, he has written two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002). Between 1998 and 2004, Hawke was married to actress Uma Thurman.
Ethan Hawke
George “G.” Willikers
for George “G.” Willikers in Big Thunder Mountain
Suggested by jakubduda
In the 1880s, the booming mining town of Rainbow Ridge lives in the shadow of Big Thunder Mountain, where wealthy mine owner Barnabas T. Bullion has built his fortune. When his adventurous daughter Abigail returns home, she crosses paths with Jack Reed, a former railroad engineer hired to investigate a series of mysterious train accidents and stories of locomotives moving without drivers. Their investigation leads them to Barnabas’s corrupt foreman, G. Willikers, who has secretly discovered a rich vein of gold deep inside the mountain and plans to steal it with the help of hired gunmen. As Jack and Abigail uncover the conspiracy, they are drawn into shootouts, horseback chases and a growing romance, while strange events inside Big Thunder become impossible to explain. With the help of old miner Sedona Sam, his dog Digger and the unpredictable dynamite-chewing goat Billy, they learn that the mountain has a long history of unexplained disasters whenever men dig too greedily. Willikers eventually seizes the mine and escapes with several train cars full of gold. Jack, Abigail and Barnabas fight back in a violent battle across the mining camp before pursuing him into Big Thunder itself. The final chase becomes a wild race through collapsing tunnels, waterfalls, broken bridges and abandoned shafts, while a mysterious driverless locomotive joins the pursuit. Jack boards Willikers’s train, and after a brutal fight, Willikers chooses the gold over his own safety and plunges with most of it into a ravine. One surviving car of gold is recovered, enough to rebuild Rainbow Ridge and reward the miners. Barnabas finally puts his daughter before his fortune, while Jack and Abigail admit their feelings for each other and leave town together. As they disappear into the distance, an empty locomotive deep inside Big Thunder Mountain slowly begins to move on its own. And Billy keeps chewing dynamite.
