Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
DVD Release Date: May 25, 1999
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Flixster Reviews (32,688)
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October 10, 2006It doesn't make sense, visually, but you still understand what the story is about.
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September 21, 2009This modern version of Shakespeare?s classic tale of love is so very nearly perfect. It just has one problem, and it?s quite a big one. Leonardo Dicappuccino. He's awful!
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July 8, 2009This reminds me of freshman year in college - romance, drama, 18-year-old angst. And also it came out during my freshman year in college.
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May 25, 2009I turely hate this version of the movie. The spend the whole movie yelling the lines at it each it's gross and totally kills the atmosphere.
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December 3, 2009Still love the original better! but it was pretty good!! Leo was so young. al around pretty good i could hve really lived w/out them making it a modern day version!!
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December 1, 2009Quirky and kind of shifts too fast from one shot to the next, but honestly, I loved it. I like the contemporary feel to it and the whole gang-mafia idea. Mercutio was over-the-top, just like I imagined him. Well done Baz Lurhmann!
Critic Reviews
June 18, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I have never seen anything remotely approaching the mess that the new punk version of Romeo & Juliet makes of Shakespeare's tragedy. full review
January 1, 2000
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes. full review
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April 7, 2009this one's a fantastic movie....the greatest love story of all times.... i really love watching this over and over again
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January 8, 2009I loved it ssssssssooooooooooo much but i wuz kinda d-pressin AND i couldnt understand them @ all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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July 2, 2008omg that moive was like the best movie eva it is one of my fave movie every bit of the movie was grate ( i even cried in the movie ) so i really liked romeo and juliet i have seen it about 40 times and i still love it
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May 26, 2008to lkehisal and to whoever else decided that this movie was inappropriate:
I'm 14. I never thought that i would be able to get through a shakespearean movie, but this opened doors for me. i know shakespeare is amazing, but some of his work is very, sadly, inacsesable to a younger generation. this version makes that generation able to understand the magic of shakepeare. you are fully welcome to have your own opinion but dont make it so that others are turned off of a chance to discover the most amazing playwright this world has or will ever see. -
May 26, 2008
This movie is BEYOND amazing. Claire Danes is brilliant and Leonardo Dicaprio is too! I just love it SO much. My favourite scene is the scene in the swimming pool, with the proposal and you know, declaration of undying LOVE that sort of thing. But anyway, this scene makes me ACHE! it makes me wish I was in love, makes me long for it......it was soo good!
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January 11, 2008Superb. A modern, enthralling, exciting, romantic, emotional, action-packed version that does justice to the orignal play.
Excellent soundtrack, perfect script as it's true to the original language and though modern, keeps aspects of the original play threaded into the settings, situations and props.
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January 5, 2008William Shakespeare is rolling in his grave. This has got to be the most awful versions of one of the best plays in history. It was ghetto, street, inappriate, ridiculous, and insulting. All involved in making this disgrace should be sent to court and sued for taking peoples' time and money unfairly.
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December 3, 2007oh men i really love to watch this scene "ur the one of most influencial man :;leon dicaprio, clair danes wonder ful girl "so pretty "that i want to hold and shake ur hand " i love thee julliet claire
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