Topic: Kiefer Sutherland as Hamlet ?

[Touti]

I kinda recall seeing a movie based on a Shakespeare play many years ago where Sutherland was playing a major role.  I think it was Hamlet but I'm not sure and I can't find it on IMDB.

Anyone can help me with that ?  I liked that movie and I would buy it if I could remember what it was.

[Najemikon]

Well this is an oddity! I tried Googling it and came up with this Understanding Shakespeare (Amazon)

So I searched for "Understanding Shakespeare" in Amazon and couldn't find the same product description, getting this instead I reckon it's the same! 

The cast list (such as it is) on the first link is basically the cast of 24. There's a series of these things. It doesn't seem to be the stories as such, but using actors to study key scenes. How very bizarre. Dennis Haysbert I bet is brilliant with Shakespeare; Kiefer will be interesting, but Elisha Cuthbert? Bless her. 

EDIT: Just realised the possibility that the first link was VHS. I was right... Ah, well. No wonder info is so hard to find.

[Touti]

The problem is that I'm not sure it was Hamlet, could have been another Shakespeare play, I don't really know them as I have never read them 

It wasn't really a Shakespeare play ported to cinema either, it was a movie based on the play, more of an adapation if you prefer.  I rented it at the local video store many years ago.  I'm pretty sure it was Kiefer Sutherland because I reckon it was the first of his work I ever saw.

[Najemikon]

Well those links are to Macbeth. It strikes me like it's some classical version of the Actor's Studio thing.

[goodguy]

Maybe you mean Ethan Hawke as Hamlet in Almereyda's (sp?) film? With Julia Stiles as Ophelia and Bill Murray as Polonius?

[Touti]

No it's not that.  It wasn't a modern story inspired from Hamlet.  I'm almost certain that the title was "Hamlet", I'll keep searching until I find it.  Maybe I'm wrong it wasn't Sutherland after all.

[Najemikon]

Kenneth Branagh's version?

[Kathy]

Jon,

I don't know if it's just me but under your line "NOBODY MOVE! I dropped me brain." is nothing but a white box with red in it; when you press it a "fatal error has occured" appears.

[Jimmy]

Jon,

I don't know if it's just me but under your line "NOBODY MOVE! I dropped me brain." is nothing but a white box with red in it; when you press it a "fatal error has occured" appears.

No red box for me, but Jon it seems that you have some problems with your phpdvdprofiler or you want to keep your collection secret...

[Najemikon]

Well, I've pulled the plug on my online collection for the time being. The updates were annoying me. Sorry about the red box; I didn't know what you were talking about, but the fantastic, can't-recommend-it-enough, "No Script" plugin for Firefox was hiding it for me. 

I will update my signature soon.

[Kathy]

Actually it is a white box with a red x in it, and yes it is still there for me!