I’ll admit it. Strange Brew
is my favorite Hamlet tribute film of all time. It’s got a heroine (Pamela) instead of a hero, and instead of a prince, she’s an heiress to her father’s corporate empire. It has the ghost of her father communicating from the dead through an 80s video game machine, and a duplicitous uncle who pretends to be a father figure. But most of all, it’s got beer. And lots of it.
The clue that gave it away for me was the name of the brewery. They called it Elsinore after Hamlet’s own home in Denmark. And there were two Elsinores - the brewery and appropriately, the insane asylum. Who’s to know if Pamela’s visions are part of some insanity, or if she’s just plain drunk?
Hamlet aside, here are some of my favorite movie quotes from Strange Brew:
- Who horked our clothes, eh?
- I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it.
- You’re so nice. If I didn’t have puke breath, I’d kiss you.
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