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Romeo + Juliet

My only love sprung from my only hate.

6.8(5,483)19962h 0m19

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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Status
Released
Budget
$14.5M
Box office
$147.3M
Language
English
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Behind the camera

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Produced in

Australia, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereLos Angeles, California27 Oct 1996
    • TheatricalPG-131 Nov 1996
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1228 Mar 1997
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM26 Dec 1996
  • CanadaCA

    • TheatricalPG1 Nov 1996
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical1410 Jan 1997
  • CzechiaCZ

    • TheatricalU13 Mar 1997
  • EstoniaEE

    • PremieretARTuff Tartu Love Film Festival4 Aug 2025
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical129 Apr 1997
    • Digital / OTTDisney+23 Feb 2021
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1213 Mar 1997
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical14 Mar 1997
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical163 Apr 1997
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1228 Mar 1997

Frequently asked questions

Romeo + Juliet was released on 1 November 1996.

Audience reviews

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  • R

    r96sk

    5/4/2021

    8/10

    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 sure - it's very good. I'm yet to see a bad - heck, even a just mildly good - film from Leonardo DiCaprio, which rem…

  • G

    GenerationofSwine

    1/11/2023

    1/10

    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 day with Shakespearean English and... yeah. Too much of a Juxtaposition for me. The kind of WWII update of Richar…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/18/2023

    7/10

    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" and "Capulet" have been feuding since God was a boy. The uneasy truce between them is to be severely tested when "Romeo…

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