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Hamlet
Directed by
Kenneth Branagh
1996
4h 2m
PG-13
Drama
7.7
95%
89%
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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.
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Cast of Hamlet
Kenneth Branagh
Prince Hamlet
Derek Jacobi
King Claudius
Kate Winslet
Ophelia
Julie Christie
Gertrude
Richard Briers
Polonius
Nicholas Farrell
Horatio
Rufus Sewell
Fortinbras
Reece Dinsdale
Guildenstern
Timothy Spall
Rosencrantz
Michael Maloney
Laertes
Robin Williams
Osric
Gérard Depardieu
Reynaldo
Jack Lemmon
Marcellus
Ian McElhinney
Barnardo
Ray Fearon
Francisco
Brian Blessed
Ghost of Hamlet's Father
Billy Crystal
First Gravedigger
Simon Russell Beale
Second Gravedigger
Don Warrington
Voltimand
Ravil Isyanov
Cornelius
Charlton Heston
Player King
Rosemary Harris
Player Queen
Richard Attenborough
English Ambassador
John Gielgud
Priam
Judi Dench
Hecuba
John Mills
Old King Norway
Ken Dodd
Yorick
Andrew Schofield
Young Lord
Perdita Weeks
Second Player
Tom Szekeres
Young Hamlet
Angela Douglas
Attendant to Gertrude
Rowena King
Attendant to Gertrude
Jimi Mistry
Sailor Two
Ben Thom
First Player
David Yip
Sailor One
Sarah Lam
Attendant to Gertrude
Rizz Abbasi
attendant
David Blair
attendant
Michael Bryant
Priest
Peter Bygott
Attendant
Charles Daish
stage manager
Rob Edwards
Lucianus
Yvonne Gidden
Doctor
Jeffery Kissoon
Fortinbra's Captain
john Spencer-churchill
Fortinbra's Captain
Sian Radinger
Prologue
Melanie Ramsey
Prostitute
Hamlet Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
With his handsome and compelling Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh brings the Bard's greatest tragedy passionately alive on the screen.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in a vibrant, full-text, full-hearted film from Shakespeare's most complex tragedy.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
As star and ringmaster, Branagh gets to the heart of Hamlet and goes to admirable lengths to take his audience there, too.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Branagh's version moved me, entertained me and made me feel for the first time at home in that doomed royal court.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Glorious as it is, this unexpurgated workout is ultimately a movie of moments.
Common Sense Media
Randy White
Shakespeare's great tragedy -- all of it.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A vigorous, four-hour adaptation that's 100 percent Shakespeare and 100 percent cinema.
Slant Magazine
Rob Humanick
A work of tremendous personal ambition equipped with a budget nearly equal in magnitude.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There are many ... instances when you want to run screaming from Elsinore Castle.
Washington Post
Lloyd Rose
The film equivalent of a lushly illustrated coffee-table book.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Branagh confirms what was known from the opening shot of Henry V: he has fine cinematic skills.
Salon.com
Scott Rosenberg
Every little triumph seems to inspire in Branagh some accompanying act of bad taste or judgment.
Houston Chronicle
Jeff Millar
By looking to the box office and the classroom with equal respect, [Branagh] has kept himself a friend of Shakespeare.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
The play widely regarded as the best piece of dramatic literature ever written...[in] the only unexpurgated big-screen version. [Blu-ray]
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Die-hard Bard students may quibble, but this gargantuan and glorious "Hamlet" is a movie-lover's paradise.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Branagh combines one of the Bard's best plays with some of the best filmmaking the medium has to offer.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Branagh has one-upped Olivier again by making his Hamlet a bold spectacle: big and loud and colorful.
TV Guide
Simply gorgeous to look at, and a number of the performances are outstanding...
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