Gibson plays the prince of medieval Denmark, sensing a dark conspiracy behind his royal father's death. Ensnared in this unraveling treachery is one of the most powerful casts ever in a Bard-based film: Glenn Close as Hamlet's mother Gertrude, Alan Bates as the usurper Claudius, Paul Scofield as the ghost of Hamlet's father, Ian Holm as a meddling advisor Polonius, and Helena Bonham-Carter as the ill-fated Ophelia. Vivid and virile, this is "a compelling Hamlet for today." (Caryn James, The New York Times)

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