Also Known As: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Company: Castle Rock Entertainment / Turner Pictures (I) / Fishmonger Films
Aspect Ratio: 2.20 : 1
Plot: Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.
Cast and Character: Riz Abbasi as Attendant to Claudius / Richard Attenborough as English Ambassador / David Blair as Attendant to Claudius / Brian Blessed as Ghost of Hamlet's Father / Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet / Richard Briers as Polonius / Michael Bryant as Priest / Peter Bygott as Attendant to Claudius / Julie Christie as Gertrude / Billy Crystal as First Gravedigger / Charles Daish as Stage Manager / Judi Dench as Hecuba / Gérard Depardieu as Reynaldo / Reece Dinsdale as Guildenstern / Ken Dodd as Yorick
Creators: n/A
Description: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Directors: Kenneth Branagh
Genres: Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Location: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some violent images and sexuality
Opening Weekend: ITL 95,996,000
Poster: posters/0116477.jpg
Rating: 7.7
Release Date: 25 December 1996 (USA)
Runtime: 242 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Tagline: n/A
Title: Hamlet
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/
Votes: 24,372
Writers: William Shakespeare / Kenneth Branagh
Year: 1996
Hamlet got rated 7.7.
About the movie: Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.
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