Would you want to be a rhinoceros? But what if everyone else was one?

One by one, people are turning into rhinoceroses. Incredulous office clerk Stanley (Gene Wilder) starts to think such a transformation might not be the worst thing. Reuniting Mostel and Wilder for the first and only time after The Producers, Rhinoceros is an adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist, anti-fascist play, which premiered at the Royal Court in London in 1960 and was directed by Orson Welles. Mostel won a Tony Award in a production the following year for the role he reprises in the film with physical-comedic genius. 

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