Hamnet

About Hamnet

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Hamnet (2025) is a romance film directed by Chloé Zhao. It runs 125 minutes and was released in November 2025.

Jessie Buckley takes the lead as Agnes, Paul Mescal as Will, Emily Watson as Mary, and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew. Written by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell. Production companies include Amblin Entertainment, Book of Shadows, and Hera Pictures. The film began as a novel.

Shelv files it under tragic, compassionate, sentimental, and historical fiction. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Marley & Me, and Pet Sematary make useful companions to Hamnet, all filed under somber. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 1,738 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.