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Atmospheric Stylized Clever
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Young Lovers Fall in Love Forbidden Love Tragic Love Hopes Love and Romance Unfulfillment Social Differences
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Drama Romance
Time/Period:
20th Century 90s
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Suburbs
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Date Night
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Award Winner Critically Acclaimed
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Based on Play
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, 1996

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

Written by: William Shakespeare

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 120 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.9

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Profile of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet can be described as stylized, atmospheric, and clever. The plot revolves around tragic love, young lovers, and themes of unfulfillment. The main genres are drama and romance. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in the suburbs. It takes place in the 1990s. It is adapted from a play. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a date night. Note that it involves violent content.

Summary of William Shakespeare's Romeo & 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 colorful sets earned the film an Oscar nomination for art direction. John Leguizamo gives a memorable performance as a devilish Tybalt.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	1 November 1996
Runtime:	120 min

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Leonardo DiCaprio

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Claire Danes

as Juliet

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

For all the hubbub, the film succeeds in relating Shakespeare to modern times, thanks mainly to the use of energetic pop music and the gameness of the performers. Full Review

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by: Noel Murray

Rolling Stone

Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence. Full Review

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by: Peter Travers

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I've always been one to say that a classic can not be recreated; that the magic of a true original can not be recaptured. But what I found in Baz Luhrmann's version of the star-cross'd lovers, is far more than a cheapened revival of a well-known... Read and rate it

14.October.2009
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by: David Carstensen
David Carstensen rated this movie0/10

atmospheric and touching

The great performance of Leonardo Di Caprio and Clair Danes make this movie brilliant. The filmmaker manage to modernized Shakespeare's tale and yet to keep the original dialect and atmosphere. The film is touching and stylish but above all it's... Read and rate it

09.November.2008
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by: mor318
mor318 rated this movie8/10Great

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