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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet| Director: | Baz Luhrmann | | Writers: | Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann | | Editor: | Jill Bilcock | | Music: | Nellee Hooper | | Production Designer: | Catherine Martin | | Producers: | Gabriella Martinelli and Baz Luhrmann | | Twentieth Century Fox; PG-13; 113 minutes | | Release: | 11/96 | | Cast: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Harold Perrineau, Paul Sorvino, Pete Postlethwaite and Miriam Margolyes | | Based on the play by William Shakespeare |
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Who would've thought it possible to create a hyperkinetic updating of the Bard's most romantic tale with an MTV audience in mind and preserve Shakespeare's language? Filmmaker Luhrmann has managed both, with the help of convincingly passionate performances from DiCaprio and Danes. The rival families, the Capulets and Montagues, are transplanted to Florida's Verona Beach, where the families run businesses from dueling skyscrapers and gang members shoot at each other from the ground and the air. The heir (DiCaprio) and heiress (Danes) fall in love at a costume ball and all hell breaks loose. It's a frenzied rock video with a tender side, too.
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from Infoplease:
- Charles and Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - The two chief families in Verona were the rich Capulets and the Montagues. There had been an old quarrel between these families, which was grown to su
- William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act II - Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Ju
- William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act III - I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire: The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, i
- William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act I - Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil
- William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Dramatis Personae -
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