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.
Runtime: 242 mins
Release Date: 24 Dec 1996
Starcast: Riz Abbasi, Richard Attenborough, David Blair, Brian Blessed, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Bryant, Peter Bygott, Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Charles Daish, Judi Dench, Gérard Depardieu, Reece Dinsdale, Ken Dodd, Angela Douglas, Rob Edwards, Nicholas Farrell, Ray Fearon, Yvonne Gidden, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Ravil Isyanov, Derek Jacobi, Rowena King, Jeffery Kissoon, Sarah Lam, Jack Lemmon, Ian McElhinney, Michael Maloney, John Spencer-Churchill, John Mills, Jimi Mistry, Sian Radinger, Melanie Ramsey, Simon Russell Beale, Andrew Schofield, Rufus Sewell, Timothy Spall, Thomas Szekeres, Ben Thom, Don Warrington, Perdita Weeks, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet, David Yip, Christopher Bowles, Frank Morgan, Royston Munt, Melanie Ramsay, Orlando Seale, Jimmy Yuill,
Director(s): Kenneth Branagh
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, ,
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/
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IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 (34019 votes)
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