Movie
Romeo + Juliet
Movie
Romeo + Juliet
- Year: 1996
- Movie Genres: Crime, Romance
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Actors: Claire Danes, Harold Perrineau, John Leguizamo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Rudd
Baz Luhrmann helped adapt this classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet (Claire Danes) is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris (Paul Rudd) as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love.
