Hamlet
by Franco Zeffirelli
List Price:
Our Price: $6.91
You Save: $8.07 (54%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $6.74 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Alan Bates, Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Mel Gibson, Paul ScofieldDirector: Franco Zeffirelli
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Writer: Franco Zeffirelli
Editor: Richard Marden
Producer: Bruce Davey
Producer: Dyson Lovell
Writer: Christopher De Vore
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Hamlet
DVD Review: Mel Gibson's version of Hamlet, the Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Saw the movie before seeing the play on Broadway with Jude Law. If I had not seen the movie, it would have been very difficult to watch the play and understand what was going on. Mel did a great job in playing Hamlet. The whole cast was excellent. I highly recommend this movie, if you are a Shakespeare fan.
Mike K
DVD Review: Hamlet - Excellent movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hello I'm an autistic adult.
This is my review on Hamlet - dvd.
I rented this from my local library & have watched it on tv on the regular channel's a couple of times & really enjoy the movie. Mel Gibson is great as Hamlet in the movie. Excellent actor. I can't praise up the movie enough. If you get into Shakespeare then watch this movie. You'll really enjoy it I know I have.
Happy Movie Hunting!
DVD Review: Excellent product
Summary: 5 Stars
Is an excellent film, specially for the students that are learning about William Shakespeare famous plays, what a better way to do so . DVD Review: Worth having
Summary: 5 Stars
The screenplay takes great liberties with the script--some radical abbreviations--but overall, it was aesthetically delightful.DVD Review: Dreadful
Summary: 1 Stars
This film has many problems, bad cuts, miscasting, etc. - but I'll limit myself to Mel Gibson here. This is the most ridiculous Hamlet I've ever seen. Mel plays him with swaggering machismo (the only thing he is capable of) and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. Hamlet is a passive-aggressive type; he is indirect in everything he does. Laurence Olivier's is a good example as to how he should be played. Gibson's doesn't even make any sense.
And as far as the cuts, they're particularly bad here, but everyone does it. Olivier cuts quite a bit out of it himself. Brannagh's is the only film version I know of with no cuts at all and unfortunately I feel it is as wrong as this one.
Description of Hamlet
Treachery. Madness. Murder. The story of Hamlet has been told for 400 years...but it's never been told like this! Mel Gibson (the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films) takes on his richest part to date, the title role in a dynamic new version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth), the location-shot production has a sumptuous look that won Academy Award nominations for Art Direction and Costume Design. Gibson plays the prince of medieval-era Denmark, who senses treachery behind his royal father's death. Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons) plays Hamlet's mother Gertrude, all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. A brilliant supporting cast, including Alan Bates as Claudius, Paul Scofield as the ghost of Hamlet's father, Ian Holm as Polonius and Helena Bonham-Carter as Ophelia, adds its powerful presence to this immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds. Big, bold and heroic, this is a vivid and virile Hamlet for the modern age and all time.Franco Zeffirelli's stripped-down, two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as a rather robust version of the ambivalent Danish prince. Gibson is much better in the part than many critics have admitted, his powers of clarity doing much to make this particular Hamlet more accessible than several other filmed versions. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. Zeffirelli's vigorous direction employs a lively camera style that nicely alters the viewer's preconceptions about the way Hamlet should look. --Tom Keogh
Drama DVDs
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Bestsellers in Drama DVDs
PersepolisPARONNAUD,VINCENT; Release date: 2008-06-24; DVD
Best price: $15.38
Price in other shops:
Il PostinoDisney; Release date: 2000-03-14; DVD
Best price: $7.36
Price in other shops:
The Diving Bell and the ButterflyBuena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2008-04-29; DVD
Best price: $4.94
Price in other shops:
The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)Release date: 2004-07-13; DVD
Best price: $4.88
Price in other shops:
La Vie en Rose (Extended Version)HBO HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2007-11-13; DVD
Best price: $19.54
Price in other shops:
A Very Long EngagementTAUTOU,AUDREY; Release date: 2005-07-12; DVD
Best price: $5.47
Price in other shops:
The Chorus (Les Choristes)Disney; Release date: 2005-05-03; DVD
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
HamletWarner Brothers; Release date: 2004-02-24; DVD
Best price: $5.79
Price in other shops:
Babette's FeastAVEL,GABRIEL; Release date: 2001-01-23; DVD
Best price: $3.76
Price in other shops:
Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You)Paris; Release date: 2007-11-13; DVD
Best price: $3.49
Price in other shops:
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
Julius CaesarBRANDO,MARLON; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $2.22
Price in other shops:
Twelfth NightKINGSLY,BEN; Release date: 2005-08-30; DVD
Best price: $9.03
Price in other shops:
Much Ado About NothingBRANAGH,KENNETH; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $7.74
Price in other shops:
A Midsummer Night's DreamEVERETT,R/PFEIFFER,; Release date: 2003-04-15; DVD
Best price: $3.95
Price in other shops:
The Taming of the ShrewTAYLOR,ELIZABETH; Release date: 1999-10-26; DVD
Best price: $6.77
Price in other shops:
Hamlet - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2000-09-19; DVD
Best price: $14.50
Price in other shops:
Henry VTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2000-07-18; DVD
Best price: $8.22
Price in other shops:
Romeo & JulietHUSSEY,OLIVIA; Release date: 2000-05-23; DVD
Best price: $4.76
Price in other shops:
Macbeth / McKellen, Dench (Thames Shakespeare Collection)A&E; Release date: 2004-11-16; DVD
Best price: $7.80
Price in other shops:
William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition)BRANAGH,KENNETH; Release date: 2007-08-14; DVD
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops: