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Hamlet

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Hamlet
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2hrs 58min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
2000
Directors:
Campbell Scott, Eric Simonson
Distributor:
Hallmark
Starring:
Campbell Scott, Blair Brown, Jamey Sheridan  ...more
Synopsis: Campbell Scott is both star and co-director of this elaborate (albeit economically produced) four-hour TV version of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The film is based on Scott's earlier theatrical production of the same play, with several of the same actors repeating their same roles. Updated to 1900 New York, the text remains substantially the same as it has always been: Hamlet (Scott), the "melancholy" Danish prince, discovers to his horror that his late father, the King, ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review

Daring innovations mark this 2001 production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the U.S. South in the early 1900s. For example, Polonius (Roscoe Lee Browne) and his children, Ophelia (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and Laertes (Roger Guenveur Smith), are black; Rosencrantz (Michael Imperioli) and Guildenstern (Marcus Giamatti) are Mafia-style hit men; and the weather is always fair. But the biggest surprise of all

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Campbell Scott
Hamlet
Blair Brown
Gertrude
Jamey Sheridan
Claudius
Roscoe Lee Browne
Polonius
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Barbara Cook (R) and guest attend the Broadway opening night of "Hamlet" at the Broadhurst...
Barbara Cook (R) and guest attend the Broadway opening night of "Hamlet" at the Broadhurst...
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