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Released
1996 · FILM

Hamlet

Prince Hamlet returns to Denmark determined to expose his uncle’s treachery and avenge his murdered father, but his quest for justice ignites deadly intrigue that threatens the throne and his own sanity.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
242 min
Drama

Synopsis

Prince Hamlet, heir to the throne of Denmark, returns home to discover that his father has been murdered and that his mother is about to marry the killer—his uncle. At the same time, tensions are rising as war looms on the horizon.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Neil FarrellShot by Alex ThomsonScored by Patrick DoyleDesigned by Tim Harvey

Box Office

1996 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.7M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$4.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $91K 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 3 theaters

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