Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, et al.

The fringe characters from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" take center stage at Elsinore.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 014381003086
• Release Date: January 2016
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Image Entertainment
• Director: Tom Stoppard
• Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth, Donald Sumpter, Joanna Miles, Ljubo Zecevic, Ian Richardson, Sven Medvesck
• Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: blu_ray
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

In a tragedy, even minor characters die.

The scene closes in on Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, or is it Guildenstern & Rosencrantz, discussing the odds of a flipped coin coming up heads. What seems to be a casual curiosity is the setting for the eventual outcome of the story. If the names sound familiar, then you will recognize them from the play “Hamlet.” Their story was never fully told until now. Throughout the film, we get snippets of Hamlet and visions of what is to come. The real fun is in the fact that the dialogue and the actors could have easily been seamlessly slipped into the original play. Their play on words not only matches Shakespeare but a good dose of Lewis Carroll; “Toes on the other hand”,” Don’t you mean the other foot?” Disperses through the story, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) makes all the great discoveries from gravity to flight to steam engines and so forth. Every time he goes to show them to Guildenstern (Tim Roth), they are overlooked or dismissed. The only person who was a tad over the top, acting like he was acting, was Richard Dreyfuss as the leader of the acting troop. However, this is one movie that you can get away with overacting. Do not forget to read the book of the same name.