HAMLET

Year: 2000
USA: Miramax Films
UK: FilmFour
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Karl Geary, Paula Malcomson, Steve Zahn, Dechen Thurman, Rome Neal, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Bartel, Casey Affleck, Robert Thurman, Tim Blake Nelson, John Martin, Bernadette Jurkowski, Robin MacNeil
Director: Michael Almereyda
Country: USA
USA & UK: 111 mins
USA Rated: R for some violence
UK Certificate: 12 for moderate violence and horror
USA Release Date: 12 May 2000 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 15 December 2000

Synopsis

HAMLET is a contemporary adaptation of the classic play set in New York City, circa 2000 -- a world of laptops and limousines. The President of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of the murder. Nobody is more troubled than her son Hamlet (Ethan Hawke). Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and revenge is in the air.