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Fat Ham
2021 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Morgan Green
Critically-acclaimed playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare’s masterpiece with his new drama, FAT HAM. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet’s woes. What’s different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man trying to break the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his own liberation. From an uproarious family barbecue emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
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It's hard to find good Shakespeare films, IMHO - I love the plays, but so many films seem underfunded and amatuerish. The only good movie versions of Hamlet I've seen were (in parts of) the films Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Fat Ham.
Edit: I'm not complaining and don't care much, but HN is puzzling sometimes! Currently this comment is at -1 - it's such an innocuous comment, and it added some substance. Maybe people really hated those films! :)