Hamlet
Film Information
Festival Edition 2001 - Edition 5
Section Panorama
Director Michael Almereyda
Duration 113 min
Language English
Category Panorama 2001
Producer May Hobby, Andrew Fierberg
Screenplay Michael Almereyda, based on the play by William Shakespeare
Cast Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Casey Affleck, Karl Geary, Liav Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Dechen Thurman, Jeffery Wright, Steve Zahn
Synopsis
This modern update introduces Hamlet to a world of laptops and limousines in the present-day New York City. The president of Denmark Corporation is dead. His wife is remarried to a man suspected of murder. No one is more troubled than her son Hamlet. Trust is impossible, love is difficult and murder is in the air. There’s something rotten in Denmark Corporation, and Hamlet has to clean up the mess.