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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

1990

Tom Stoppard

Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Joanna Roth ...

7.0

786

Comedy. Drama Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers as important as the questions? Will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) manage to discover the source of Hamlet's malaise as requested by the new king? Will the mysterious players who are strolling around ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Both Oldman and Roth turn in flat and uninspiring performances."
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"As happens at the opera, one usually laughs (if one laughs at all) not because something is funny, but because one has successfully recognized that it is supposed to be funny."
		Kathleen Maher Austin Chronicle	"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be dead, but they do save the day."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"As a movie, this material, freely adapted by Stoppard, is boring and endless. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring. (...) Rating: 0 (out of 4)"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Staged as they are here, the jokes and the fourth-wall gamesmanship don't seem as funny as they did on the page."

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