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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
MEANRANK
74/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 61, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 87. Critics average 61, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Tom Stoppard
- Writer
- Tom Stoppard
- Based on
- a work by Tom Stoppard
- Studio
- Thirteen, Brandenberg
- Released
- 8 February 1991
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $805.1K
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Golden Lion 1990 | Golden Lion | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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