Trivia: Derek Jacobi played Hamlet in a 1980 BBC production.
Trivia: Michael Maloney, who plays Laertes in this film, played Rosencrantz in the 1990 Mel Gibson version.
Hamlet (1996)
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Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kate Winslet, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Attenborough, Julie Christie, Brian Blessed, David Blair, Riz Abbasi
Revealing mistake: When Ophelia's coffin lid is being torn off by her grief-stricken brother, she blinks, ever so slightly...
Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio - a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung these lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were won't to set the table on a roar?
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