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Cast and Crew

  • Brian Dennehy Brian Dennehy, Actor
  • Claire Danes Claire Danes, Actor
  • Dash Mihok Dash Mihok, Actor
  • Diane Venora Diane Venora, Actor
  • Harold Perrineau, Jr. Harold Perrineau, Jr., Actor
  • Jamie Kennedy Jamie Kennedy, Actor
  • Jesse Bradford Jesse Bradford, Actor
  • John Leguizamo John Leguizamo, Actor
  • Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor
  • M. Emmet Walsh M. Emmet Walsh, Actor
  • Miriam Margolyes Miriam Margolyes, Actor
  • Paul Rudd Paul Rudd, Actor
  • Paul Sorvino Paul Sorvino, Actor
  • Pete Postlethwaite Pete Postlethwaite, Actor
  • Vondie Curtis-Hall Vondie Curtis-Hall, Actor

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William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of West Side Story when they form rival gangs. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins, but after he realizes that Juliet (Claire Danes) is a Capulet at the end of one very wild party, the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst. He relies heavily -- and with serious consequences -- on his rebel gender-bender of a friend, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau Jr.), and Father (not Friar) Lawrence (Pete Postlethwaite) for protection and support. Romeo is, of course, exiled, and it looks like Juliet will be forced into an arranged marriage with the bland Paris (Paul Rudd). It ends, as Romeo and Juliet must, when Romeo hears a tragic piece of misinformation and brings his suicide wish to what was meant to be Juliet 's temporary tomb. This time, though, the turf and the weapon of choice have taken a turn toward the surreal. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide

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