Haunted by grief and filled with fierce love, Hamnet by Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao reimagines Shakespeare’s heart through a family’s tragedy.
The film stars Jessie Buckley as Agnes and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare, navigating domestic life in plague-era England.
Alongside Buckley and Mescal, the cast includes Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe, Jack Shalloo, and David Wilmot
Hamnet premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival, then played at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Award. It opens in theaters in the U.S. with a limited rollout starting November 27, 2025, followed by a nationwide expansion on December 12, 2025.
Here is the brief synopsis: Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Deadline described Hamnet as a “stunning emotional story of love, death, Shakespeare and art” and praised director Chloé Zhao Hamnet (known for Nomadland and The Rider), writing, “..with its quiet determination to say much about how art is affected by life, is unlike anything else and proof she is just about as good a filmmaker as any working today. Hamnet, with its two stars and director achieving new heights of their talents, knocked me out.”
Watch the official trailer for Hamnet above.
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