Romeo and Juliet DVD

Baz luhrmann (strictly ballroom) takes a shot at reinventing shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers as a visual pastiche inspired by mtv imagery, hong kong action-picture cliches, and luhrmann's own taste for deliberate, gaudy excess.

Editor's Note

This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept apart by rival industrialist families. Bookended by newscastsers reciting Shakespeare's prose as their copy, this clever glam updating of ROMEO AND JULIET is one of the most unusual adaptations of the Bard's work in the history of cinema. The stylish and colorful sets earned the film an Oscar nomination for art direction. John Leguizamo gives a memorable performance as a devilish Tybalt.

Features

DVD, Widescreen, Sensormatic

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Foxvideo
	Release Date: 4/2/2013
	Running Time: 130 minutes
	Original Release Date: 1996
	Catalog ID: 2259045
	UPC: 00024543034650
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: English
	Available Audio Tracks: English
	Video: Color

Cast & Crew

	Leonardo DiCaprio
	Miriam Margolyes
	Claire Danes
	Paul Rudd
	Harold Perrineau Jr.
	Pete Postlethwaite
	Brian Dennehy
	Diane Venora
	John Leguizamo
	William Shakespeare - Story
	Donald McAlpine - Director of Photography
	Baz Luhrmann - Director

Professional Reviews

Premiere
"...A visual flamboyance and an experimental flair..." 12/01/1996 p.30

Rolling Stone
"...A whirlwind of hardball action, rowdy humor and rapturous romance....DiCaprio and Danes cut to the heart..." 11/14/1996 p.123-4

Variety
"...DiCaprio brings youthful energy to the role....The language is spotlighted by Danes, who has somehow found a way to both enunciate the Shakespearean lingo and make its meanings lucid and accessible..." 10/28/1996

Los Angeles Times
"...It has enough positive energy and dizzying high spirits to make it irresistible..." 11/01/1996 p.F1

Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] stylishly energized and vivid adaptation....With a defiantly modern soundtrack." 05/01/2007 p.117