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Mood:
- AtmosphericStylizedClever
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Plot:
- Young LoversFall in LoveForbidden LoveTragic LoveHopesLove and RomanceUnfulfillmentSocial Differences
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Genres:
- DramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- Suburbs
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Play
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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- Violent Content
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet , 1996
English
USA
Profile of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet can be described as stylized, atmospheric, and clever. The plot revolves around forbidden 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 a blockbuster, 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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 1 November 1996 |
| Runtime: | 120 min |
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as Romeo
as Juliet
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Critics Reviews
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.
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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.
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- by: Peter Travers
Users Reviews
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...
- 14.October.2009
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- by: David Carstensen
- David Carstensen rated this movie
0/10
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...
- 09.November.2008
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- by: mor318
- mor318 rated this movie
8/10Great
