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| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead |
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| Director: Tom Stoppard |
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Tom Stoppard, William Shakespeare |
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Emanuel Azenberg, Iris Merlis, Louise Stephens, Michael Brandman, Patrick Whitley |
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Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Livio Badurina, Tomislav Maretic |
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Art House & International |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 |
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(NTSC Widescreen) |
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Special Edition |
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| Studio: Image Entertainment |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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PG |
| DVD Release: Mar 2005 |
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Discs: 2 (Cloud) [] |
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| Reviews: 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" |
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