
Overview:
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.Status: | Released (1996-11-01) |
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Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 30 nominations total |
BoxOffice: | $46,351,345 |
Screen: | William Shakespeare, Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann |
Productions: | 20th Century Fox, Bazmark |
Production Countries: | Australia, Mexico, United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |




Casts
- 6193: Leonardo DiCaprio - Romeo
- 6194: Claire Danes - Juliet
- 17772: Jesse Bradford - Balthasar
- 6198: Vondie Curtis-Hall - Captain Prince
- 6197: Brian Dennehy - Ted Montague
- 5723: John Leguizamo - Tybalt
- 6199: Miriam Margolyes - Nurse
Crews
- 6209: Kym Barrett - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 6211: Craig Pearce - Screenplay - Writing
- 6201: Baz Luhrmann - Producer - Production
- 6206: Nellee Hooper - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 6203: Catherine Martin - Production Design - Art
- 6202: Gabriella Martinelli - Producer - Production
- 3050: Jill Bilcock - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
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Part 2 of Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy: <em>'Romeo + Juliet'</em>. I remember watching a little bit of this years and years back at high school and I seem to recall enjoying it a lot. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I might've on this viewing, but it is still a film I ....
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Shakespeare is still getting work in Hollywood, and probably always will... ... but I like updated modern Shakespeare when it comes in the form of West Side Story, She's all That, Overboard (all the other million or so Rom-Coms based off of The Taming of the Shrew) and not when th ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Baz Luhrmann has relocated this classic to modern day Verona Beach and introduced a contemporary sound track to complement much of the original dialogue from the bard's story of true love, revenge and, quite possibly, the greatest tragedy ever written in the English language. The fam ....
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