Romeo + Juliet

Shakespeare s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 American English-language Drama Romance film featuring Leonardo Dicaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino and Margarita Wynne. The movie is inspired from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Bazmark Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Baz Luhrmann and Gabriella Martinelli. Romeo + Juliet is written by William Shakespeare, Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann and it is directed by Baz Luhrmann. 20th Century Fox acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Romeo + Juliet was released on 13th March 1997 and takes a screen time of 120 minutes. Romeo + Juliet was made on a budget of $14 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann. Cinematography was done by Donald M. McAlpine and editing by Jill Bilcock. The music was composed by Nellee Hooper along with Marius De Vries and Craig Armstrong. At the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival It won an award for Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio).
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