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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

  • 19901990
  • PGPG
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
23K
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
ComedyDrama
Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
23K
YOUR RATING
    • Tom Stoppard
    • Tom Stoppard
  • Stars
    • Gary Oldman
    • Tim Roth
    • Richard Dreyfuss
    • Tom Stoppard
    • Tom Stoppard
  • Stars
    • Gary Oldman
    • Tim Roth
    • Richard Dreyfuss
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 141User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
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    Gary Oldman
    Gary Oldman
    • Rosencrantz
    Tim Roth
    Tim Roth
    • Guildenstern
    Richard Dreyfuss
    Richard Dreyfuss
    • The Player
    Livio Badurina
    • Tragedian
    Tomislav Maretic
    • Tragedian
    Mare Mlacnik
    • Tragedian
    Serge Soric
    • Tragedian
    • (as Srdjan Soric)
    Mladen Vasary
    • Tragedian
    Zeljko Vukmirica
    • Tragedian
    Branko Zavrsan
    • Tragedian
    Joanna Roth
    Joanna Roth
    • Ophelia
    Iain Glen
    Iain Glen
    • Hamlet
    Donald Sumpter
    Donald Sumpter
    • Claudius
    Joanna Miles
    Joanna Miles
    • Gertrude
    Ljubo Zecevic
    • Osric
    Ian Richardson
    Ian Richardson
    • Polonius
    Sven Medvesek
    • Laertes
    • (as Sven Medvesck)
    Vili Matula
    • Horatio
      • Tom Stoppard
      • Tom Stoppard
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    • Trivia
      Originally, the two leads (who appropriately spend the movie mixing up their own names) were cast the other way around.
    • Goofs
      Throughout the movie there are scenes where day suddenly changes to night and vice versa. This is a running gag of Tom Stoppard plays which often have "time jumps" written into the stage directions.
    • Quotes

      Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?

      Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.

      Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.

      Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.

    • Connections
      Edited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Seamus
      Performed by Pink Floyd

      Courtesy of EMI Records UK Ltd.

    User reviews141

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    9/10
    Must see
    A wonderfully witty film masterfully transferred from a marvellous stage script to the screen.

    The dialogue is constant and highly entertaining, the meshing of Stoppard's modern day speech of the original parts of the story and Shakespeare's original Hamlet practically seamless and masterfully worked.

    Gary Oldman gives a superb performance as Guildernstern (or is it Rosencratz - and, at the end of the day, does it matter?) outstanding in a fabulous cast. All in all this film cannot be recommended highly enough.
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    • Mar 20, 2006

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    • Release date
      • February 8, 1991 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Yugoslavia
    • Production companies
      • Brandenberg
      • Thirteen / WNET
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
      • Color

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