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Synopsis: 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.

Genre: Drama

Director(s): Kenneth Branagh

Actors: Riz Abbasi, Richard Attenborough, David Blair, Brian Blessed

Production: Sony Pictures Classics

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


IMDB:: 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:: 95%

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: PG-13
Year:: 1996
: 242 min
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fought with nature...
...that we with wisest sorrow
think on him...
...together with remembrance
of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister...
...now our queen...
...th' imperial jointress
of this warlike state...
...have we
as 'twere with a defeated joy...
...with one auspicious
and one dropping eye...
...with mirth in funeral
and with dirge in marriage...
...in equal scale
weighing delight and dole...
...taken to wife.
Nor have we herein barred
your better wisdoms...
...which have freely gone
with this affair along. For all, our thanks.
[APPLAUDING]
Now follows
that you know young Fortinbras...
...holding a weak supposal
of our worth...
...or thinking
by our late dear brother's death...
...our state to be disjoint
and out of frame...
...colleagued with the dream
of his advantage...
...he hath not failed
to pester us with message...
...importing the surrender of those lands
lost by his father, with all bonds of law...
...to our most valiant brother.
So much for him.
[APPLAUDING]
Now for ourself,
and for this time of meeting...
...thus much the business is:
We have here writ
to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras...
...who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
of this his nephew's purpose...
...to suppress his further gait herein,
in that the levies...
...the lists, and full proportions are all made
out of his subject.
And we here dispatch
you, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand...
...for bearers of this greeting
to Old Norway...
...giving you no further personal power
to business with the king...
...more than the scope
of these dilated articles allow.
Farewell, and let your haste
commend your duty.
In that, and all things,
will we show our duty.
We doubt it nothing, heartily farewell.
[APPLAUDING]
And now, Laertes,
what's the news with you?
You told us of some suit.
What is't, Laertes?
You cannot speak of reason to the Dane
and lose your voice.
What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
that shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
The head is not more native to the heart,
the hand more instrumental to the mouth...
...than is the throne of Denmark
to thy father.
What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
My dread Lord,
your leave and favor to return to France...
...from whence, willingly I came to Denmark
to show my duty in your coronation...
...yet now I must confess,
that duty done...
...my thoughts and wishes
bend again towards France...
...and bow them
to your leave and pardon.
Have you your father's leave?
What says Polonius?
He hath, my lord,
wrung from me my slow leave...
...by laborsome petition and at last
upon his will I sealed my hard consent.
I do beseech you give him leave to go.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and in 2015 succeeded Richard Attenborough as its president. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), and As You Like It (2006). Branagh has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War (1987), Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Conspiracy (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Warm Springs (2005), as Major General Henning von Tresckow in Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Wallander (2008–2016), My Week with Marilyn (2011) as Sir Laurence Olivier (Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), and as Royal Navy Commander Bolton in the action-thriller Dunkirk (2017). He has directed such notable films as Dead Again (1991), in which he also starred, Swan Song (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) in which he also starred, The Magic Flute (2006), Sleuth (2007), the blockbuster superhero film Thor (2011), the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) in which he also co-stars, the live-action remake of Disney's Cinderella (2015), and the mystery drama adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2017), in which he also starred as Hercule Poirot. He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs (starred in 1999) (as well as The Ballad of Big Al), Walking with Beasts (2001) and Walking with Monsters (2005). Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and has won three BAFTAs, and an Emmy. He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. more…

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