
This time, though, the turf and the weapon of choice have taken a turn toward the surreal. It ends, as Romeo and Juliet must, when Romeo hears a tragic piece of misinformation and brings his suicide wish to what was meant to be Juliet 's temporary tomb. Romeo is, of course, exiled, and it looks like Juliet will be forced into an arranged marriage with the bland Paris ( Paul Rudd). He relies heavily - and with serious consequences - on his rebel gender-bender of a friend, Mercutio ( Harold Perrineau Jr.), and Father (not Friar) Lawrence ( Pete Postlethwaite) for protection and support. Romeo ( Leonardo DiCaprio) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins, but after he realizes that Juliet ( Claire Danes) is a Capulet at the end of one very wild party, the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst.

Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of West Side Story when they form rival gangs. Shakespeares famous play is updated to the modern suburb of Verona while still. That all the world will be in love with night.


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The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Watch Romeo And Juliet 1996 Online Full Movie without registration. Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-browd night, Give me my Romeo and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine.
