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  Hamlet 1996
GENERAL INFORMATION

directed by - kenneth branagh
screenplay by - williams shakespeare & kenneth branagh
music by - patrick doyle
genre - drama
rating - PG-13
runtime - 242 min
budget - 18,000,000
gross - $4,708,156
theatrical release - december 15, 1996
dvd release - august 14, 2007
filming location - blenheim palace, oxfordshire, uk
production company - columbia pictures corporation
                                         fishmonger films
                                         turner pictures

  SUMMARY

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.

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  MAIN CAST
robin williams - osric
kenneth branagh - hamlet
billy crystal - first gravedigger
kate winslet - ophelia
  EXTRA INFO
Robin does not appear till about 15 minutes before the end of the film.
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  BOX OFFICE DETAILS

budget - $18,000,000
gross - $4,708,156 (us)
opening weekend - $90,684 (3 theaters)
widest release - 93 theaters

 

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