Tom Stoppard's scholarly jest (undergraduate-level), fleshing out two Shakespearean spear-carriers, reaches the screen a generation late, and demonstrates already that it lacks something of Hamlet's timelessness. Stoppard, directing the show himself, sets out to compensate for any dimmed cleverness by trying hard, harder, too hard -- beginning with the blues-and-howling-dog musical overture and carried on in the Laurel-and-Costello comedy duo of Gary Oldman and Tim Roth as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, or Guildenstern and Rosencrantz. With Richard Dreyfuss and Iain Glen. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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