Hamlet 2
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| Directed by | Andrew Fleming |
| Produced by |
Eric Eisner Leonid Rozhetskin Aaron Ryder |
| Written by | Andrew Fleming Pam Brady |
| Starring |
Steve Coogan Catherine Keener Amy Poehler David Arquette Elisabeth Shue |
| Narrated by | Steve Coogan |
| Music by |
Ralph Sall Steve Brown |
| Cinematography | Alexander Gruszynski |
| Edited by | Jeff Freeman |
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L+E Pictures
Bona Fide Productions ContentFilm International |
| Distributed by | Focus Features |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $4.9 million |
Hamlet 2 is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Andrew Fleming, written by Fleming and Pam Brady, and starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, and David Arquette. It was produced by Eric Eisner, Leonid Rozhetskin, and Aaron Ryder. Hamlet 2 was filmed primarily at a New Mexico high school from September to October 2007. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Focus Features.
Dana Marschz is a recovering alcoholic and failed actor who has become a high school drama teacher in Tucson, Arizona, "where dreams go to die". Despite considering himself an inspirational figure, he only has two enthusiastic students, Rand Posin and Epiphany Sellars, and a history of producing poorly received school plays that are essentially stage adaptations of popular Hollywood films (his latest being Erin Brockovich). When the new term begins, a new intake of students are forced to transfer into his class as it is the only remaining arts elective available due to budget cutbacks; they are generally unenthusiastic and unconvinced by Dana’s pretensions, and Dana comes into conflict with Octavio, one of the new students.
Dana is floored when Principal Rocker notifies him that the drama program is to be shut down at the end of the term. Seeking to inspire his students, Dana undertakes to write and produce an original play: a sequel to Hamlet featuring time travel to avoid the deaths of the characters, and new, more controversial content, including the introduction of Jesus Christ as one of the characters, complete with a song-and-dance number titled "Rock Me Sexy Jesus". The kids gradually warm to the project, but Rand – cast as a bi-curious Laertes and overshadowed by Octavio as Hamlet – storms out of the drama group and provides a copy of the play’s script to Principal Rocker, who orders Dana to stop the controversial production.
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