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Hamlet (1996)
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing. Director:Kenneth Branagh |
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
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Cast
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Riz Abbasi | ... |
Attendant to Claudius
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| Richard Attenborough | ... | ||
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David Blair | ... |
Attendant to Claudius
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| Brian Blessed | ... | ||
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | ||
| Richard Briers | ... | ||
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Michael Bryant | ... | |
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Peter Bygott | ... |
Attendant to Claudius
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| Julie Christie | ... | ||
| Billy Crystal | ... | ||
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Charles Daish | ... |
Stage Manager
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| Judi Dench | ... | ||
| Gérard Depardieu | ... | ||
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Reece Dinsdale | ... | |
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Ken Dodd | ... | |
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Storyline
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. Written by John Brosseau <brossj5683@aol.com>
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet See more »Box Office
Budget:
$18,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$148,321 (USA) (29 December 1996) (3 Screens)Gross:
$4,414,535 (USA) (13 April 1997)Company Credits
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2.20 : 1
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Performed by Plácido Domingo
Text researched and adapted by Russell Jackson See more »
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Richard Attenborough later appeared in Elizabeth as William Cecil, 1st Lord Burghley, who is believed by some scholars to have inspired the character Polonius. See more »Goofs
Continuity: As Claudius and Gertrude welcome Hamlet back to Denmark in the throne room, the ladies to the side change places. See more »Connections
Featured in "Brows Held High: Shakespeare, Film, and Kenneth Branagh: A Retrospective (#1.1)" (2011) See more »Soundtracks
"In Pace"Performed by Plácido Domingo
Text researched and adapted by Russell Jackson See more »
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