Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
As a comedy by director Tom Stoppard, the content revolves around two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
15 October 1961, London, England, UK
7 April 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
11 October 1953, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1965, Århus, Denmark
1951
14 May 1961, London, England, UK
13 February 1943, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
2 February 1933, London, England, UK
5 March 1962, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
April 05, 2006
...On stage, the sprightly teleological riffs and bebop dialogue delight as ends in themselves. Here they're leaden and compromised. What happened?
August 15, 2003
Probably the best stage to screen adaptation I've ever seen. Essential.
January 01, 2000
Staged as they are here, the jokes and the fourth-wall gamesmanship don't seem as funny as they did on the page.
January 21, 2003
By trying to take advantage of the medium, Stoppard loses track of what makes his work so wonderful. This belongs on the stage.
July 03, 2008
Unfortunately, Stoppard the director does not match the invigorating brilliance of Stoppard the writer.
May 20, 2003
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.
July 03, 2008
A disastrous adaptation of an excellent play.
January 01, 2000
As a movie, this material, freely adapted by Stoppard, is boring and endless. It lies flat on the screen, hardly stirring.
May 13, 2004
Really head-twisting adaptation of the play with fine work from Oldman and Roth.
July 29, 2002
"belongs on the stage, but for what it is, not bad"
February 09, 2006
Both Oldman and Roth turn in flat and uninspiring performances.
July 10, 2003
Tom Stoppard's 1967 morality play has been translated into a high-spirited and well-acted film.
