Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) (1996)
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Movie Release Date 1996
Country UK
Language English
Audience Rating PG-13
Running Time 242 mins
Format LaserDisk
Color Color
IMDb Rating 7.6
Cast
Riz Abbasi Attendant to Claudius
Richard Attenborough English Ambassador
David Blair Attendant to Claudius
Brian Blessed Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Kenneth Branagh Hamlet
Richard Briers Polonius
Michael Bryant Priest
Peter Bygott Attendant to Claudius
Julie Christie Gertrude
Billy Crystal First Gravedigger
Crew
Director Kenneth Branagh
Writer William Shakespeare
Writer Kenneth Branagh
Producer David Barron
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.
Personal Details
Rating
Seen It Yes
Collection Status In Collection
Links IMDB
Edition Details
Format LaserDisk
Release Country USA
TV System NTSC
No. of Disks/Tapes 3
Packaging 1-4 CLV/5 CAV
Screen Ratio Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround