Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

A comedy-drama screenplay written Tom Stoppard. Two minor characters from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. They 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.