Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
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.
- Director
- Tom Stoppard
- Worldwide
- $805,104
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead returned 0.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $3M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $805,104
- Release date
- Feb 8, 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
