Hamlet [videorecording] / Miramax Films ; Double A Films ; screen adaptation/directed by Michael Almereyda ; produced by Andrew Fierberg and Amy Hobby ; executive producers, Jason Blum, John Sloss ; director of photography, John De Borman.
Ethan Hawke (Hamlet), Kyle MacLachlan (Claudius), Diane Venora (Gertrude), Liev Schreiber (Laertes), Julia Stiles (Ophelia), Bill Murray (Polonius), Karl Geary (Horatio), Steve Zahn (Rosencrantz), Dechen Thurman (Guildenstern), Paula Malcomson (Marcella), Jeffrey Wright (Gravedigger), Rome Neal (Barnardo), Paul Bartel (Osric), Sam Shepard (Ghost), Casey Affleck, (Fortinbras), Robert Thurman (Priest), Tim Blake Nelson (Flight Captain). Based on the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Special features: Trailers for Committed, Shakespeare in love, Reindeer games, Last is last, Stiff upper lips, Holy smoke!
Summary:
A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
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