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Hamlet, also known as Hamlet 2000, is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Kyle MacLachlan co-stars as Uncle Claudius, with Diane Venora as Gertrude, Liev Schreiber as Laertes, Julia Stiles as Ophelia, Steve Zahn as Rosencrantz, Bill Murray as Polonius,…
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Trend of Shakespeare’s plays being adapted by setting them in different time periods can take very different forms. Some film makers might use places and times different than those in the works of Bard with specific purpose of making such an adaptation more spectacular. Kenneth Branagh did exactly that with his epic reworking of *Hamlet* in 1996. Four years later the very same play was adapted by Michael Almereyda i…More
