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Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

6.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

5,304

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1996

Release Year

120 min

Runtime

Drama
Romance

Overview

In this 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.

Keywords

suicide
gang war
forbidden love
based on play or musical
murder
gun violence
star crossed lovers
teenage romance
masquerade
ironic
romeo & juliet
absurd
incredulous
disapproving
dubious
frustrated
indifferent
tragic

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Reviews(3)

5.3avg rating
r96sk

r96sk

May 4, 2021

8
8/10

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'd recommend for

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

January 11, 2023

1
1/10

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 the film is modern

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 18, 2023

7
7/10

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 families "Montague"

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