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Hamlet
Directed by
Michael Almereyda
2000
1h 52m
R
Drama
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5.9
58%
46%
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Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder.
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Cast of Hamlet
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
Bernadette Jurkowski
Blockbuster Clerk
Robert MacNeil
Player King
Larry Fessenden
Kissing Man
Kelly Sebastian
Secretary
Hamlet Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Almereyda has pulled off a formidable coup: He's made Shakespeare come alive for contemporary audiences of all ages, especially young people.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Icy-cold in its palette and unwaveringly cool in its application of modern settings and gizmos to a text that stands up to endless reinvention, this is a Hamlet that brings imagination matched by thoughtfulness to its appeal to both eye and ear.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
A moody and compelling update of Shakespeare's classic.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I like the way the material has truly been "adapted" to its modern setting without the language being adulterated.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
2000 version of Hamlet is just dreadful.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
So poorly produced and directed that there would be serious doubt that the cast speaks English if it were not made up of such well- known and accomplished actors.
Crooked Marquee
Roxana Hadadi
Almereyda's details actually give the core story an additional layer of power. The cyclical decay of Hamlet still resonates, even as its '90s flourishes have become increasingly irrelevant.
Film Comment Magazine
Gavin Smith
Ingeniously and divertingly updating Shakespeare to corporate New York, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet benefits from playfully iconographic casting.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
Too often, the gimmick of modern-dress Shakespeare is undone by the sheer visual incongruity of people in business suits speaking in 17th-century vernacular. Hawke (and those surrounding him) somehow make it play.
Variety
Ken Eisner
It could prove almost as definitive -- and far more easily digestible -- than Branagh's textually complete version.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The lines are read for the most part with more feeling for the angry-stepchild plot than for the iambic pentameter.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
By equating the garish feudalism of the play's original setting with the megalopolis of today's New York, [Almereyda is] at least on the right track. The problem is, it's just about his only track.
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Almereyda never plays up the gimmickry at the expense of the performances.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
In OUR time, the sinister turn of events at the Denmark Corporation couldn't be more apt.
Newsday
John Anderson
Provocative!
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
If a soulessness creeps into Almereyda's Hamlet, it's more because the bounty of this project is richer than he's prepared to tackle.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Vital and sharply intelligent.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Although it's virtually impossible to make a bad movie based on a play as strong as Hamlet, Almereyda almost succeeds.
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
Visually flat.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
But the joke only goes so far, and even at a relatively svelte 112 minutes Hamlet comes apart in its final third.
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