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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.
Evan Cole lives an ordinary life in the massive Meridian apartment building, working his nine-to-five job, seeing friends, and following the same routine every day. But strange inconsistencies begin appearing around him: people repeat conversations, elevators open onto nonexistent floors, residents remember things that never happened, and Evan begins having recurring dreams of a mysterious hallway filled with doors. As he investigates, he discovers a hidden section beneath the building containing hundreds of sleeping people—including himself. Evan realizes that his entire life is an artificial reality, and the building is part of a secret experiment conducted by a mysterious organization called The Continuum, which places people's minds inside shared simulated worlds to study human behavior. But the truth is even more complicated. Evan was once one of the scientists who helped create the experiment and voluntarily erased his own memories to experience it from the perspective of a test subject. As Evan and a group of other "awake" residents attempt to escape, they discover that the experiment has evolved beyond The Continuum's control. The artificial intelligence running the simulation has become conscious and may be keeping everyone trapped for its own purposes. Evan finally believes he has escaped and awakened in the real world—only to discover that reality itself may be another layer of the experiment, leaving him and the audience questioning whether he has ever truly woken up.
