Romeo & Juliet
by Franco Zeffirelli
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Actor: John McEnery, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea, Olivia Hussey, Pat HeywoodDirector: Franco Zeffirelli
Brand: HUSSEY,OLIVIA
Writer: Franco Zeffirelli
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan
Producer: John Brabourne
Producer: Richard B. Goodwin
Writer: Franco Brusati
Writer: Masolino D'Amico
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Romeo & Juliet
Movie Review: Best Version of the Classic! Highly Recommended!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Franco Zeffirelli production of "Romeo and juliet" is by far my all time favorite version of the classic play. Staring Olivia Hussey as Juliet, this movie really captures the feel of the period and brings the story to life. The sets and costumes were simply perfect and the feast scene with the dancing and moving song is perhaps the most powerful movie memory I have from my teen years. The emotion of the movie still brings a tear to my eye at the end.
We watched this with our teen daughter who wanted to try out for her senior class play. She read along and practiced the lines to get the emotions correct.
This is a fantastic story, brought to life in a stunning movie. Highly Recommended!
Summary of Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare's classic play of tragic love between members of opposing families.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 12-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD
Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles of, well, kids. Seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey play the titular pair, the Bard's star-crossed lovers who defy a running feud between their families in order to be together in love. Typically played on stage and in previous film productions by adult actors, the innocent look and rawness of Whiting and Hussey resonated at the time with a burgeoning youth movement from San Francisco to Prague. The tragic romance at the center of the story also clicked with anti-authority sentiments, but even without that, Zeffirelli scores points by validating the ideals and passions of strong-willed adolescents. Less successful are scenes requiring the actors to have a fuller grasp of the text, though the best thing going remains the unambiguous duel between Romeo and Tybalt (Michael York). Lavishly photographed by Pasquale de Santis on location in Italy, this Romeo and Juliet brought a different tone and dimension to a story that had become tiresome in reverential presentations. --Tom Keogh
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