Macbeth (2007)

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  • Opened June 15, 2007 
  • 1 hr 49 min
  • With the 2006 MacBeth, controversial Australian director Geoffrey Wright (Romper Stomper, Metal Skin) launches his fourth big screen outing and continues the trend of reinventing Shakespeare by contemporizing the bard's plays. As in other recent efforts (Richard Loncraine's Richard III (1996), Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000)), Wright uses a distinctly postmodern context to extract related themes from the original work. Here, Wright reworks the brutal tragedy Macbeth, retaining its Elizabethan dialogue, but resituating the events within the arena of modern Australian gang violence. His Macbeth (Sam Worthington) is a drug baron and pimp, his Lady Macbeth a Valium-addicted, narcoleptic burnout and manipulator, his Duncan the head of Melbourne's criminal underground. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Steve Bastoni, Gary Sweet
  • Director: Geoffrey Wright
  • Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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Doesn't live up to its occasional good ideas

by drewbach

It's under 2 hours and the text is sliced and diced, but this Macbeth still feels over-long. They do some very interesting things with Lady M--here less the usual steely-eyed HBIC and more a...

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Sam Worthington and Victoria Hill in "Macbeth"