- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Nov 1, 1996
- Starring: Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio
- Summary:
- Director: Baz Luhrmann
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 20
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Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Negative: 2 out of 20
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100Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence.
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60Mr. Luhrmann's frenetic hodgepodge actually amounts to a witty and sometimes successful experiment, an attempt to reinvent "Romeo and Juliet" in the hyperkinetic vocabulary of post-modern kitsch. This is headache Shakespeare, but there's method to its madness.
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30It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 3 out of 10
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jess10
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LouisH.5
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Patrick3Romeo and Juliet in a modern-day setting. Does any more need to be said?
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