Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Movie Details

Original Title Romeo + Juliet

Original Language EN

Budget $14,500,000

Revenue $147,298,761

Status Released

Popularity 3.7

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Romeo

Popularity: 18.2

Claire Danes

Juliet

Popularity: 3.1

Jesse Bradford

Balthasar

Popularity: 2.7

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Captain Prince

Popularity: 0.9

Brian Dennehy

Ted Montague

Popularity: 2.4

John Leguizamo

Tybalt

Popularity: 1.9

Miriam Margolyes

Nurse

Popularity: 5.8

Harold Perrineau

Mercutio

Popularity: 15.3

Christina Pickles

Caroline Montague

Popularity: 0.7

Pete Postlethwaite

Father Laurence

Popularity: 1.6

Paul Rudd

Dave Paris

Popularity: 2.6

Paul Sorvino

Fulgencio Capulet

Popularity: 0.7

Key Crew

Producer Baz Luhrmann, Gabriella Martinelli

Editor Jill Bilcock

Director Baz Luhrmann

Screenplay Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce

Production

20th Century Fox

Bazmark

Videos & Trailers

Why Leonardo DiCaprio was the perfect Romeo | A Life In Pictures | BAFTA

Featurette

Trailer HQ

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

suicide gang war forbidden love based on play or musical murder gun violence star crossed lovers shakespeare in modern dress teenage romance masquerade ironic romeo & juliet absurd incredulous disapproving dubious frustrated indifferent tragic shakespeare

Reviews from TMDB

r96sk 8/10

May 4, 2021

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 ... Read more

GenerationofSwine 1/10

Jan 11, 2023

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 ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jun 18, 2023

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" ... Read more