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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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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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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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Rated PG-13 for some violent images and sexuality See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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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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Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it's like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale.
Polonius: Very like a whale.
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Performed by Plácido Domingo
Text researched and adapted by Russell Jackson See more »
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Cast members Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Gérard Depardieu have all played Cyrano de Bergerac. As translated into English by Anthony Burgess, in the speech where Cyrano rattles off a list of possible insults to his nose, he includes "Oh that this too, too solid nose would melt," a parody of the "too, too solid flesh" line from this play. (In the Brian Hooker translation of "Cyrano", which José Ferrer played onstage and on film, the line is given as "Was this the nose that launched a thousand ships?", a parody of "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships", a line from Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus".) See more »Goofs
Continuity: Spot of blood on Osric's lip when speaking to Hamlet. See more »Quotes
Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel?Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it's like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale.
Polonius: Very like a whale.
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"In Pace"Performed by Plácido Domingo
Text researched and adapted by Russell Jackson See more »
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