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Hamlet

Year:
Duration:
112 min
Genres:
Drama | Romance | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6
Director:
Michael Almereyda
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2000-07-12
Filming Locations: New York City, New York, USA
Earnings
Budget: $2,000,000
Opening Weekend: $62,253 (USA) (14 May 2000)
Gross: $1,568,749 (USA) (13 August 2000)
Cast
Actor
Character
Ethan Hawke
Hamlet
Kyle MacLachlan
Claudius
Diane Venora
Gertrude
Sam Shepard
Ghost
Bill Murray
Polonius
Liev Schreiber
Laertes
Julia Stiles
Ophelia
Karl Geary
Horatio
Paula Malcomson
Marcella
Steve Zahn
Rosencrantz
Dechen Thurman
Guildenstern
Rome Neal
Barnardo
Jeffrey Wright
Gravedigger
Paul Bartel
Osric
Casey Affleck
Fortinbras
Robert Thurman
Priest
Tim Blake Nelson
Flight Captain
John Wills Martin
Claudius' Bodyguard (as John Martin)
Bernadette Jurkowski
Blockbuster Clerk
Robert MacNeil
Player King
D.J. Dara
Special Guest Appearance
Sinead Dolan
Special Guest Appearance (as Sinéad Dolan)
Paul Ferriter
Special Guest Appearance
Larry Fessenden
Kissing Man
Sarah Fiol
Special Guest Appearance
Tanya Gingerich
Special Guest Appearance
Paul Graham
Special Guest Appearance
Henry Griffin
Special Guest Appearance
India Reed Kotis
Special Guest Appearance
Ayun Halliday
Special Guest Appearance
Greg Kotis
Special Guest Appearance
Barry Manasch
Special Guest Appearance
Philip McKenney
Special Guest Appearance
Anne Nixon
Special Guest Appearance
Colin Puth
Special Guest Appearance
Charles Renfro
Giancarlo Roma
Special Guest Appearance
Thomas Roma
Special Guest Appearance
Kelly Sebastian
Secretary (as Kelly Millicent Sebastian)
Did you know?
Trivia
At 29, Ethan Hawke is the youngest actor to play Hamlet on film. It is also close to the age Hamlet is supposed to be in the original text, which is 30.
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The music that plays during the film the Mousetrap is part of Tchaikovsky's "Hamlet", op. 67.
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When Hamlet is in Blockbusters, saying his soliloquy, the film that is playing is The Crow: City of Angels (1996), the second installment of the Crow series; a series in which the protagonists are sent to avenge the dead and set things right.
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Goofs
In Gertrude's bedroom, just after Hamlet kills Polonius, a boom mic is reflected in the windows.
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In the fencing bout on the rooftop, Hamlet and Laertes are dressed in modern foil fencing gear (with electric vests) but use épées instead of foils.
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When we first see Claudius speaking, his mouth is obviously saying something other than what we hear. It lasts for about five seconds.
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Quotes
Hamlet: The play's the thing, with which I'll catch the conscience of the king.
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Polonius: We are oft to blame in this, tis too much proved that with devotions pious we do sugar o'er the devil himself
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Ghost: I am thy father's spirit.
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