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A Balasaur Score of 69 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 61%. Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 75% of the 1,447 1990s comedy movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes61%
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
332 audience votes
Key crew
- Tom StoppardWriter
- Tom StoppardDirector
- Stanley MyersOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Gary OldmanRosencrantz
- Tim RothGuildenstern
- Richard DreyfussThe Player
- Iain GlenHamlet
- Ian RichardsonPolonius
- Donald SumpterClaudius
- Joanna MilesGertrude
- Joanna RothOphelia
- John BurgessAmbassador from England
- Livio BadurinaTragedian (Alfred)
- Tomislav MareticTragedian
- Mare MlacnikTragedian
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Themes
based on play or musicalfateexistentialismhamlettragicomedy
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