In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)

Directors

Kenneth Branagh

Cast

Richard Briars, Michael Maloney, Joan Collins, Hetta Charnley, Julia Sawalha, Nicholas Farrell, Mark Hadfield, Gerard Horan, Celia Imrie, John Sessions, Jennifer Saunders, Ann Davies, Robert Hines, James D. White, Allie Byrne, Adrian Scarborough, Brian Petifer, Patrick Doyle, Carol Starrs, Edward Jewesbury

The story

Joe Harper, a depressed and down-on-his-luck actor, asks his agent Margaretta D'Arcy to lend him money to put on a Christmastime production of Shakespeare's Hamlet in his hometown of Hope, Derbyshire. Wanting the rendition to be "free and experimental", Joe holds auditions that attract a variety of performers, most of whom Margaretta thinks are mad. In the end, Joe casts six actors: the well-meaning Nina Raymond; the long-suffering and cynical Henry Wakefield; the flamboyant homosexual Terry DuBois; the vain Tom Newman; alcoholic-in-denial Carnforth Greville; and former child actor Vernon Spatch.

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