Grand Theft Hamlet
AnimationDocumentary
6.6/10
|GB
|en
|91 min
Release Date: 2024-12-06
Overview - Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Production Companies
Grasp The Nettle FilmsProject 1961Park Pictures FeaturesSpark FeaturesHazel PicturesDoc Society
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
Lockdown played havoc with so many lives, but professionally none more so than those in the entertainment industry. With theatres and cinemas all closed, their livelihoods dried up and a serious degree of ennui crept in to their day to day lives. One escape from that was "Grand Theft Auto" and that's where we meet jobbing actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen. Two forty-somethings who were dealing ...
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tender_buttkiss
6/10
A weird little time capsule movie for a weird time in history, when a global pandemic forced us into lockdown and for some, this became an opportunity to create. Going into this, I thought I'd be seeing something much more different than the end product, and I couldn't help but feel a bit let down with the actual performance of the play. Felt like it was jumping around and just showing the hi...
