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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DREYFUSS,RICHARD
EAN: 0014381256222
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, Surround Sound, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 3438
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1991
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Supurb Video
Have always enjoyed the movie... and the DVD is very good quality. Excellent perspective on the Shakespearean play "Hamlet".
Rating:  - It's like `Hamlet' only; not...
`Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead' is truly a film I had no expectations of walking into it. I decided to watch it because I generally like Richard Dreyfuss, and the premise of the film sounded interesting. That said premise was also deceiving and I found myself confused for the first twenty minutes or so. I actually thought that this was about a group of actors who put on a stage performance of `Hamlet', I had no idea that it was `Hamlet' just told from another point of view. After I ... Read More
Rating: - My favourite movie of all time!
There is no way you've come to this page by accident. Before the days of dvd, I used to rent this movie from the video place. Repeatedly.
I don't know how many times I've seen this movie. It remains as fascinating, clever and witty as the first time I saw it. It is the same masterpiece it was when it was released the first time.
But if you've come to this page by accident, this is the best movie ever made. Funniest, cleverest, most unpredictable, most intriguing. It is well acted, ... Read More
Rating: - YES!
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.
Rating: - Ever wonder what they were doing offstage?
This is the film adaption of Tom Stoppard's brilliant play. An excellent cast makes this film, but you have to fully understand the play "Hamlet" in order to follow and appreciate this film. The plot is what takes place (mostly) offstage during the unfolding of "Hamlet", and it revolves around Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor players in "Hamlet" who were probably put in the play for some needed comic relief (although they meet an untimely and hard to explain end in both the play and the film). If ... Read More
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