Hamlet (2009)
- Directed by
- Gregory Doran
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 3h
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 76 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A film version of a modern-dress stage production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. David Tennant plays the Danish prince who feigns madness to avenge his father's murder.
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What happens
Hamlet is a 2009 television film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 modern-dress stage production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, aired on BBC Two on 26 December 2009. It was broadcast by PBS' Great Performances in the United States on 28 April 2010. Directed by Gregory Doran, it features the original stage cast of David Tennant in the title role of Prince Hamlet, Patrick Stewart as both King Claudius and the ghost of Hamlet's father, Penny Downie as Queen Gertrude, Mariah Gale as Ophelia, Edward Bennett as Laertes, Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius, and Peter de Jersey as Horatio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Richard Burton's Hamlet (1964)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.