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A midwinter's tale

Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try to save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet.

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  • "In the bleak midwinter"@en

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  • "Joe Harper is in a rut. His girlfriend just left him and he hasn't had an acting job in over a year. In a last-ditch effort to build his self-esteem and renew his faith in his chosen profession, Joe spends the last of his savings (plus a loan from his agent) to direct a Christmas production of Hamlet in the sleepy English village of Hope. Joe enlists six eccentric characters who each have problems of their own. Joe and his eclectic band of."
  • "Joe Harper is in a rut. His girlfriend just left him and he hasn't had an acting job in over a year. In a last-ditch effort to build his self-esteem and renew his faith in his chosen profession, Joe spends the last of his savings (plus a loan from his agent) to direct a Christmas production of Hamlet in the sleepy English village of Hope. Joe enlists six eccentric characters who each have problems of their own. Joe and his eclectic band of thespians tackle both the Bard's greatest play and their own inadequacies and fears, with surprising-- and often hilarious-- results."
  • "Thespians tackle both the Bard's greatest play and their own inadequacies and fears, with surprising and often hilarious results."
  • "Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try to save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet."@en
  • "To be or not to be? To act or not to act? The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a mega budget sci-fi movie. So in the stalwart (desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (even more desperate) version of the greatest play in the English tongue."
  • "Uses the play within a play technique to present a biting comedy as six eccentric characters, each with problems of their own, and an out-of-work actor prepare a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet while working out their personal problems, often with hilarious results."@en

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  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Christmas films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Fiction films"@en

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  • "A midwinter's tale"
  • "A midwinter's tale"@en
  • "A Midwinter's tale"
  • "A Midwinter's Tale"@en

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