Hamlet

– Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the mu..

Type:
TVSeries
Rating:
7.80 / 10
Duration:
4 Hours and 2 Minutes
Release Year:
1996
Hamlet (1996)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Hamlet (1996) - Trailer

Release Date:

25 Dec 1996

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Kenneth Branagh

Writer:

William Shakespeare (play), Kenneth Branagh (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Riz Abbasi, Richard Attenborough, David Blair, Brian Blessed

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.

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 20 nominations.

Production:

Sony Pictures Classics

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%