10.0
“A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.”
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
February 8, 19911h 57mEN
6.9
319 votes
Overview
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Director
Tom StoppardWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2.5M
Revenue
$805K
Production Companies
ThirteenBrandenberg
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Filipe Manuel Neto
4.0**Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must remain in the theater.** This film is perhaps the proof that not all successful plays are good enough to work in the cinema. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two characters from “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare, but it is difficult for anyone to remember them without being very knowledgeable about the literary work in question. They really barely matter to the action. Here, they are the main actors, and we are invited, in a way, to see things through their eyes. In theater, this is interesting. In the cinema, and for a general audience that doesn't know “…
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