Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
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Actor: Gary Oldman, Livio Badurina, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Tomislav Maretic
Director: Tom Stoppard
Brand: DREYFUSS,RICHARD
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Image Entertainment

Movie Reviews of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Movie Review: YES!
Summary: 5 Stars

I believe it was Joe Orton, play write, that said, "I wish I'd written that!" upon seeing this play in England, in the 60's. I feel the same. Tom Stoppard at his hysterical best. Hamlet fans, have fun,[except for the whinny dude playing Hamlet], Gary Oldman, always fantastic. Tim Roth, perfect. Richard Dreyfuss....not so much. One,[or two], miscasts won't spoil it for you, though.

Summary of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Tells the story of Hamlet from the viewpoint of two supporting characters.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 21-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD
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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