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...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
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March 19, 2009Two side characters from Hamlet wander around unaware of their destiny as the events of the tragedy unfold around them. Oldman and Roth are great, and the scene where they play Questions on a tennis court is hilarious.
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September 14, 2008Hilarious!! Non-stop laughter!! Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are so funny together.
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January 22, 2008Excellent idea (the other side of Hamlet) often very funny and entertaining, sometimes very well done (specially the first 30 minutes or so). But treated a bit too much like a farce, several scenes are less than average.
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July 20, 2007This is one of my all time favorites. One needs to digest it and really it must get more than one view. A true thinking person's comedy. Two side characters from Hamlet...who cares right? Wrong! This movie (first a play) follows the lives of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern after ...( read more)
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February 25, 2007Very witty and intelligent deconstruction of Shakespeare; Roth and Oldman are a superb double act. Everything Shakespeare In Love could've been, but isn't.
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September 11, 2009Loved it, I Liked the Part Where they played question tennis
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August 31, 2009Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What ...( read more) -
August 30, 2009wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch.....its got a good cast of actors/actressess thorughout this movie...i think that tim roth, gary oldman were just brilliant throughout this movie...i think that the director of this comedy movie...( read more)
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April 16, 2008I love movies in which the dialog moves at lightning speed through all sorts of verbal sparring and brilliant wordplay... and for which the D.V.D. has absolutely NO SUBTITLES. Not even the standard useless French ones. Yep, movies like that... just make my day.
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