Romeo + Juliet

Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film

Baz Luhrmann adapts 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 and Juliet's father Fulgencio Capulet has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris as part of a strategic investment plan.

But when Romeo attends a masked ball, he and Juliet fall in love.

'Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence' - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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