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Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) tries to partake in the new sexual freedoms by having an affair with his neighbor Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver). But Ben is ill suited to adultery and reveals his conventionality even as he tries to rebel against it. After a quickie with Janey, Ben bores her with his woeful tales from the office and the golf course. And Janey has to remind him that she's already got one husband and isn't looking for another.

Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's most provocative plays and its young prince who hesitates to avenge his father's death is one of his most complex…

Olivier Assayas'

Henry : "Get up off your knees." Henry's pronouncement makes his arrival seem like an answer to Simon's prayers and according to Hartley, maybe it is. Hal…

You could say that Sir Ian McKellen is an actor who lives and breaths Shakespeare. Introduced to the Bard when he was only eight, McKellen says that he was riveted by the idea of people standing up on a platform speaking other people's words and weaving magic out of it all. infected with the acting bug, McKellen went to Cambridge where the example set by fellow students Trevor Nunn and David Frost helped convince him to pursue a career in the arts.

The film opens with a disease threatening to wipe out a generation of children. Dr. Susan Tyler, played by Mira Sorvino, is an entomologist who recombines the DNA of insects to create a species that will destroy the cockroaches that carry the disease. She calls the species the Judas breed and they succeed in eradicating the epidemic. But three years later, Tyler discovers that the Judas breed has evolved into a lethal predator. Plagued by guilt, she seeks advice from her old professor Dr. Gates, played by f. Murray Abraham.

I hate the Moor..."

"Hamlet is the air.... Hamlet is geology."

Interview with Peter Berg.

Director Baz Luhrmann is dead on in his assertion that Shakespeare wrote for a broad audience. In fact, if Shakespeare were writing today he'd probably be doing films or television. We tend to forget that Shakespeare's plays were first and foremost popular entertainment. He wrote of and for his times, and had the kind of pop appeal and commercial savvy that Steven Spielberg exemplifies today.