
My only love sprung from my only hate.
In director Baz Luhrmann's 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.
- 6.8
- 1996
- Released
- 2h 0m

Leonardo DiCaprio
Romeo
Claire Danes
Juliet
Jesse Bradford
Balthasar
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Captain Prince
Brian Dennehy
Ted Montague
John Leguizamo
Tybalt
Miriam Margolyes
Nurse
Harold Perrineau
Mercutio
Christina Pickles
Caroline Montague
Pete Postlethwaite
Father Laurence
Paul Rudd
Dave Paris
Paul Sorvino
Fulgencio Capulet
Diane Venora
Gloria Capulet
M. Emmet Walsh
Apothecary
Edwina Moore
Anchorwoman
Zak Orth
Gregory
Jamie Kennedy
Sampson
Dash Mihok
Benvolio
Lupita Ochoa
Attractive Girl
Gloria Silva
Nun
Vincent Laresca
Abra
Carolyn Valero
Middle Aged Occupant
Paco Morayta
Middle Aged Occupant
Rodrigo Escandon
Kid With Toy Gun
Margarita Wynne
Station Mother
Harriet Sansom Harris
Susan Santandiago
Michael Corbett
Rich Ranchidis
Pedro Altamirano
Peter
Mario Cimarro
Capulet Bouncer
Des'ree
Diva
Ismael Eguiarte
O P Officer
Ricardo Barona
Altar Boy
Fausto Barona
Altar Boy
Quindon Tarver
Choir Boy
Alex Newman
Altar Boy 2
Cory Newman
Altar Boy 2
Jorge Abraham
Post Haste Delivery Man
John Sterlini
Sacristan
Farnesio de Bernal
Undertaker
Catalina Botello
Post Haste Clerk

Released
en
$14,500,000.00
$147,298,761.00
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Reviews

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" and "Capulet" have been feuding since God was a boy. The uneasy truce between them is to be severel

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 day with Shakespearean English and... yeah. Too much of a Juxtaposition for me. The kind of W

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 sure - it's very good. I'm yet to see a bad - heck, even a just mildly good - film from Leonardo











