Romeo And Juliet Details

1996

Rated:
70
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Starring	Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo
Director	Baz Luhrmann
Genres	Drama, Romance

Romeo And Juliet

This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept apart by rival industrialist families. Bookended by newscastsers reciting Shakespeare's prose as their copy, this clever glam updating of ROMEO AND JULIET is one of the most unusual adaptations of the Bard's work in the history of cinema. The stylish and colourful sets earned the film an Oscar nomination for art direction. John Leguizamo gives a memorable performance as a devilish Tybalt.

Starring	Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino, Diane Venora
Director	Baz Luhrmann
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 55 mins
Certificate
Collections	Ezio's Top 10
Genres	Drama, Romance
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 04 Mar 2002 Production year: 1996
Format	DVD

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Exuberantly witty version of Shakespeare, where for once the language and the present-day setting match: the weapons toted by its hoodlum cast may be guns, but they bear trademarks such as 'Sword' and 'Dagger'. The poetry of the play tends to get lost in
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
"...DiCaprio brings youthful energy to the role....The language is spotlighted by Danes, who has somehow found a way to both enunciate the Shakespearean lingo and make its meanings lucid and accessible..."
- Variety
- Posted 11 Mar 2005
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18 out of 18 people found this review helpful

flashy...

This film is really wonderful to watch. We all know the story and there are no revelations here. However the way the story moves at a really fast pace and I think this is where it wins. the characters are sexy and modern, the costomes and the fighting sequences are great.

If you haven't seen this then you are missing out.
- - A customer from Reading
  - Posted 12 Sep 2003 10:11
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12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

Romeo and Juliet - dazzling spectacular

This is one of the most colourful, dazzling, high voltage films I have ever seen. The soundtrack is amazing, and the modern setting of this Shakesperian classic is a piece of genius by director Baz Luhrman. The fight scenes between Montagues and Capulets must be seen. Tybalt and Mercutio are played superbly and steal the show from Dicaprio and Danes, whose performances are sometimes lacking. Dicaprios delivery of the balcony speech is particulary poor and Danes often seems reluctant during love scenes. However, these discrepencies cannot spoil this dramatic and high octane retelling of the greatest love story ever told. Terrific work and vision from Baz Luhrman who should have won an Oscar for such innovative and daring work.As one critic put it, this film is 'Shakespere for the Tarintino generation'.
- - elliottburton from london/leeds
  - Posted 20 Apr 2004 11:35
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Australia
- 22 Dec 2008
Bad movies come in all shapes and sizes. This one is a doozy, a big, sweeping national epic that cost Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox an arm and a leg ($130 million) and which has been hobbled by its weak US showing. Of course it’s doing nicely down under, but the real question is: what will the rest of the world make of it? And that’s a bit of a head-scratcher. Writer-director Baz Luhrmann has enjoyed a Midas touch up to now, tapping popular acclaim with his so-called Read more
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