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Romeo + Juliet

Movie (1996)

"My only love sprung from my only hate."

The Australian director Baz Luhrmann teleports the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet tale from the Italian Verona to the Latin-American Verona Beach. The film was a success with it’s original dialogue from the MTV aesthetic and with guns as the weapon of choice.

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Released:	Nov 1st, 1996
Budget:	$14,500,000.00
Revenue:	$147,298,761.00

Romeo + Juliet Main Cast

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Leonardo DiCaprio
plays Romeo

Claire Danes
plays Juliet

John Leguizamo
plays Tybalt

Harold Perrineau
plays Mercutio

Pete Postlethwaite
plays Father Laurence

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The music playing as Juliet shoots herself at the end of the film is Isolde's 'Liebestod' from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (1974), where it is used in the exact same context.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Romeo's wound swaps sides when he's with Juliet.
Claire Danes wears a wig throughout the movie and also had a special aquatic wig for her underwater scenes.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Juliet was getting out of the pool and pulling Romeo onshore, her white dress was wet and stuck to her body. But in the next shot her dress was totally dry and only her hair remained wet.

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1992
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1996
- Romeo + Juliet

2001
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Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet Main Cast

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