Complex sentence: Hawke then appeared in "A Midnight Clear" (1992), a well-received war film by Keith Gordon, and 1993's "Alive", an adaptation of Piers Paul Read's 1974 book,'.
Split into simpler sentences: Hawke then appeared in the war film "A Midnight Clear" (1992). In 1993's "Alive", an adaptation of Piers Paul Read's 1974 book,'.