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In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
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Writer:
Kenneth Branagh (written by)
Release Date:
16 February 1996 (USA)
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The drama. The passion. The intrigue... And the rehearsals haven't even started.
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Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet...
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Englishfolks play Hamlet. Hamlet loses.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Briers | ... | Henry Wakefield (Claudius, the Ghost, and the Player King) |
 | Hetta Charnley | ... | Molly |
 | Joan Collins | ... | Margaretta D'Arcy |
| Nicholas Farrell | ... | Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers) |
| Mark Hadfield | ... | Vernon Spatch (Polonius, Marcellus, and First Gravedigger) |
| Gerard Horan | ... | Carnforth Greville (Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Horatio, and Barnardo) |
| Celia Imrie | ... | Fadge |
| Michael Maloney | ... | Joe Harper (Hamlet) |
 | Jennifer Saunders | ... | Nancy Crawford |
 | Julia Sawalha | ... | Nina Raymond (Ophelia) |
| John Sessions | ... | Terry Du Bois (Queen Gertrude) |
| Ann Davies | ... | Mrs. Branch |
| James D. White | ... | Tim |
| Robert Hines | ... | Mortimer |
| Allie Byrne | ... | Tap Dancer |
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Also Known As:
A Midwinter's Tale (USA)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some language.
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99 min
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Iceland:L |
Australia:M |
Germany:12 |
New Zealand:M |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Jimmy Yuill Was offered a key role but had to pass because of his commitments to Wycliffe.
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[Severely depressed, Joe wonders what makes life worth living]
Vernon Spatch: Rachmaninoff. That bit in Brief Encounter. And Brief Encounter, actually. That makes life worth living. I'll buy you the video for Christmas.
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Vernon Spatch: Rachmaninoff. That bit in Brief Encounter. And Brief Encounter, actually. That makes life worth living. I'll buy you the video for Christmas.
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Featured in To Be on Camera: A History with Hamlet (1997) (V)
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Heart of Glass
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Cliches be damned, this is a wonderful movie, all about transformations, change, and deciding what is really important. Everyone in this movie becomes a real person, moving away from the stereotypes presented in the beginning, and the comic timing is impeccable. (Don't buy the hype that Jennifer Saunders is a star of this movie, though; she's in it for maybe five minutes. Spend your time watching Richard Sessions' magnificently funny performance instead.) Branagh's Hamlet is dull, dull, dull; Branagh's movie -about- making Hamlet is another shade of wonderful entirely.