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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
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8 February 1991 (USA) morePlot:
Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
3 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gary Oldman | ... | Rosencrantz | |
| Tim Roth | ... | Guildenstern | |
| 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 | ... | Ophelia | |
| Iain Glen | ... | Hamlet | |
| Donald Sumpter | ... | Claudius | |
| Joanna Miles | ... | Gertrude | |
| Ljubo Zecevic | ... | Osric |
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Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | Germany:12 | UK:PG | USA:PG (certificate #30638)Fun Stuff
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The pieces of paper blowing around throughout the course of the movie are actually the pages of the Latin Vulgate Bible, as can be seen on the close-up of Rosencrantz's apple pinwheel (specifically, The Prophecy of Zacharias, chapter 8). moreGoofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first encounter The Player, it is day, and then suddenly changes to night. At times, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are in a night-time setting, but when the shot changes to show the The Player and his Tragedians, the sky is blue/grey. However, this is probably intentional. Absurdist drama often features a vague or ill-defined setting, including time of day. Tom Stoppard also wrote the stage play on which his screenplay is based, which features several such apparent jumps in time continuity as a means of promoting or maintaining a sense of confusion in the audience. moreQuotes:
[first lines][Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are riding horses down a path - they pause]
Rosencrantz: [to Guildenstern] Umm, uh...
[Guildenstern rides away, and Rosencrantz follows. Rosencrantz spots a gold coin on the ground]
Rosencrantz: [to horse] Whoa - whoa, whoa.
[Gets off horse and starts flipping the coin]
Rosencrantz: Hmmm. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads.
[Guildenstern grabs the coin, checks both sides, then tosses it back to Rosencrantz]
Rosencrantz: Heads.
[Guildenstern pulls a coin out of his own pocket and flips it]
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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.