在这部演艺事业喜剧片中,Kenneth Branagh directs A MIDWINTER'S TALE, a delightful romantic comedy that celebrates the acting profession with all its passion, humor, drama, naivety, and zest for life. "It's a comic look at the actor's eternal despair" says Branagh. The ensemble comedy takes as its starting point the efforts of an out-of-work actor, Joe Harper, played by Michael Maloney (TRULY MADLY DEEPLY), who salvages his pride by mounting a low-budget production of "Hamlet". Only his agent Margaretta D'Arville (Joan Collins) believes in him. His auditions summon from the woodwork a most unpromising selection of misfits and has-beens. He signs up a cast of six to play the twenty-four roles in Shakespeare's greatest play. And so the challenge begins
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
