Grand Theft Hamlet

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.

Cast

Sam Crane

as Hamlet (voice)

Pinny Grylls

as Filmmaker (voice)

Jen Cohn

as Horatio (voice)

Tilly Steele

as Ophelia (voice)

Dipo Ola

as Laertes (voice)

Mark Oosterveen

as Polonius (voice)

Gareth Turkington

as Claudius (voice)

Lizzie Wofford

as Gertrude (voice)

Sam Forster

as Rozencrantz (voice)

Jeremiah O'Connor

as Ghost / Player King (voice)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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'...

tender_buttkiss

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 d...

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