Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
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Actor: Gary Oldman, Livio Badurina, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Tomislav MareticDirector: Tom Stoppard
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Tom Stoppard
Producer: Emanuel Azenberg
Producer: Iris Merlis
Producer: Louise Stephens
Producer: Michael Brandman
Producer: Patrick Whitley
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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Summary: 5 Stars
Stoppard proves his intelligence with an astounding take on Hamlet told from the perspective of the two characters Rosenstern and Guildenkranz. Or is it Guildenrosen and Kranzenstern? In any event the scene with the puppet play, in a play, in a play within a play, about another play within a play is priceless. Certainly this is where the idea for Being John Malkovich was born.
Summary of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
In this cleverly inspired twist on William Shakespeare's Hamlet, two of the outrageous supporting players take center stage for a dazzling game of illusion and reality that delivers one-of-a-kind entertainment! World Class Cast featuring Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus, Jaws), Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction, Planet of the Apes) and Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)Tom Stoppard's modern stage classic finds a pair of film actors worthy of its verbal japery and existential bewilderment: Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are deliciously locked in as the title characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. And yet it remains difficult to tell which one is Rosencrantz and which Guildenstern--even they seem unsure--a clever part of Stoppard's ingenious design. Focusing on a pair of unremarkable characters from Hamlet, Stoppard sees the great play from their confused perspective. Now and again the action of Hamlet sweeps them up, but most of the time R&G are left wondering where they are, what they have been sent for, and why they can't remember anything that happened before the beginning of the play. Richard Dreyfuss (fittingly grandiloquent) is the Player King, who seems to know more about the ominous workings of fiction and tragedy than the heroes do. Stoppard's first outing as a film director is handsomely shot but uncertainly paced--although any time Oldman and Roth go into one of their tennis-match debates on probability, identity, or death, the movie crackles. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be the "indifferent children of the earth," but for this brief moment they deserve center stage. --Robert Horton
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