Hamlet

The president of the Denmark corporation dies unexpectedly, and his wife has remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled than his son, Hamlet. After a hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passions run high, and revenge is in the air. Michael Almereyda, in a bold move, transfers the plot of Shakespeare's great tragedy of obsession, betrayal, and revenge to the corporate world of New York at the beginning of the millennium and takes an almost documentary approach to transfer something of the fragile character of Hamlet to the screen. A contributor to this is of course Ethan Hawke, whose gentle appearance helps in the depiction of a young man on the verge of a nervous breakdown.