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1998. The Tempest, Bonnie Raskin Production and NBC Studios. Directed by Jack Bender. With Peter Fonda (Gideon Prosper) and Katherine Heigl (Miranda Prosper). The Tempest set in the Civil War South. Television production.
1998. Twelfth Night, Live fromLincoln Center and PBS. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Helen Hunt (Viola), Kyra Sedgwick (Countess Olivia), and Paul Rudd (Duke Orsino). Filmed stage production / television production.
1997. A Thousand Acres, Beacon Communications LLC and Touchstone Pictures. Directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse. With Jessica Lange (Ginny Cook Smith), Michelle Pfeiffer (Rose Cook Lewis), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Caroline Cook), Jason Robards (Larry Cook), and Colin Firth (Jess Clark). King Lear on a Midwestern American farm, where three daughters despise their abusive father.
1997. Titus Andronicus: The Movie, Lorn Richey Productions. Directed by Lorn Richey. Television production.
1996. Hamlet, Castle Rock Corporation and Columbia Pictures Entertainment. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Kate Winslet (Ophelia), Julie Christie (Gertrude), and Derek Jacobi (Claudius).
1996. Looking for Richard, 20th Century Fox. Directed by Al Pacino. With Alec Baldwin (himself / Duke of Clarence), Al Pacino (himself / Richard III), Winona Ryder (Lady Anne), and Kenneth Branagh, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Kevin Kline, Vanessa Redgrave, and James Earl Jones as themselves (among others). Pacino uses scenes from Richard III and interviews with scholars, other actors, and ordinary people to create a documentary about the play.
1996. Love is All There Is, Cinema 7 and Samuel Goldwyn Company. Directed by Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. With Lainie Kazan (Sadie Capomezzo), Abe Vigoda (Rudy), and Angelina Jolie (Gina Malcici). Romeo and Juliet with two rival restaurant-owning Italian families in New York at constant odds—especially after their children fall in love.
1996. Romeo + Juliet, 20th Century Fox and Bazmark Films. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo), Claire Danes (Juliet), John Leguizamo (Tybalt), Pete Postlethwaite (Father Laurence), and Brian Dennehy (Ted Montague).
1996. Tromeo and Juliet, Troma Entertainment Incorporated. Directed by Lloyd Kaufman. Extremely violent and sexual R-rated modern version of Romeo and Juliet, in keeping with the outrageous sensibility of Troma productions.
1995. The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, cin-ciné 19. Directed by Todd Louiso. With Philip Seymour Hoffman (Bernardo/Horatio/Laertes). Short film based on Tom Stoppard’s short play: William Shakespeare shoots a fifteen-minute version of Hamlet but is told to trim it down by a studio executive.
1995. Othello, Castle Rock Entertainment and Columbia Pictures Corporation. Directed by Oliver Parker. With Laurence Fishburne (Othello) and Kenneth Branagh (Iago).
1995. Richard III, Bayly/Paré Productions and United Artists. Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Ian McKellen (Richard III), Annette Bening (Queen Elizabeth), Jim Broadbent (Buckingham), and Robert Downey, Jr. (Lord Rivers).
1994. The Lion King, Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. With the voices of Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Young Simba), Matthew Broderick (Adult Simba), Jeremy Irons (Scar), James Earl Jones (Mufasa), Nathan Lane (Timon), Rowan Atkinson (Zazu) and Whoopi Goldberg (Shenzi the Hyena). An animated tale of a lion cub, who after seeing his father killed, must find the strength to replace his evil uncle as the leader of the pride, is based loosely on Hamlet.
1994. Renaissance Man, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Inc. and Touchstone Pictures. Directed by Penny Marshall. With Danny DeVito (Bill Rago), Gregory Hines (Sergeant Cass), Ed Begley, Jr. (Jack Markin), and Mark Wahlberg (Pvt. Tommy Lee Haywood). A former advertising man finds work teaching Hamlet and Henry V to army recruits at a base camp.
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