Based on the play by William Shakespeare

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996

Special features: Commentary with Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Craig Pearce, and Don McAlpine [audio feature]; Director's gallery featurettes: Impact (4 min.); Why Shakespeare? (3 min.); Pitching Shakespeare (10 min.); The gas station (7 min.); The pool scene (5 min.); Tybalt's execution (4 min.). Cinematographer's gallery featurettes: A hole in the wall, One light, Operator, The Fishtank, The elevator, The church (6 min.); Design gallery slide shows: The books (5 min.); Guns of Verona Beach (1 min.); Cars of Verona Beach (1 min.); Production design (11 min.); Fashion of Verona Beach (3 min.); Branding of Verona Beach (1 min.); Interview gallery featurettes: Co-writer (2 min.); Editor (2 min.); Choreographer (2 min.); Costume designer (2 min.); Leonardo DiCaprio (2 min.); Claire Danes (2 min.); John Leguizamo (2 min.); Music clips (8 min.); Marketing R+J (4 min.); DVD-ROM feature Script to screen [requires a DVD-ROM drive]

The prologue -- Sycamore grove -- Bachelor of the year -- The pool hall -- The Capulet mansion -- Mercutio at Sycamore grove -- The party parties -- Romeo spies Juliet -- Fulgencio warns Tybalt -- Juliet, the flirt -- First kisses -- The revelation -- The party's over -- Romeo sneaks back in -- Arranging the marriage -- Boys on the beach -- Romeo gets the word from the nurse -- The nurse teases Juliet -- The wedding -- Death on a summer's day --Retribution at twilight -- A wedding night -- Juliet learns her options -- Romeo misses a message in Mantua -- Juliet takes her medicine -- Romeo learns of his beloved's fate -- Together at last -- Epilogue -- End titles

Director of photography, Donald M. McAlpine ; film editor,
Jill Bilcock ; production designer, Catherine Martin ;
costume designer, Kym Barrett ; music, Nellee Hooper ;
original score, Craig Armstrong, Marius de Vries, Nellee
Hooper

Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo), Claire Danes (Juliet), Jesse
Bradford (Balthasar), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Captain Prince),
Brian Dennehy (Ted Montague), John Leguizamo (Tybalt),
Miriam Margolyes (Nurse), Harold Perrineau (Mercutio),
Christina Pickles (Caroline Montague), Pete Postlethwaite
(Father Laurence), Paul Rudd (Dave Paris), Paul Sorvino
(Fulgencio Capulet), Diane Venora (Gloria Capulet), M.
Emmet Walsh (Apothecary)

Forsooth, this is a pretty play! In fair, tropical Verona
Beach in the present day, Romeo + Juliet blithely weds 400
-year-old dialog to MTV style visuals. Swords have become
guns, and the Montagues and Capulets have become Mafia-
style family-based gangs, while their sons run their own
rich-kid gangs whose rumbles bring out armies of cops.
Whilst these two households are constantly fighting, Romeo
and Juliet meet up and fall in love. Unfortunately, life
is not as simple as fall-in-love-and-get-married in this
city. Much trouble ensues, with banishments, curses, and
finally death. Shakespeare bereft of snobbery, language
intact, accessible for all those who think that
Shakespeare is "too hard" to understand

D

VD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround, Dolby
surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio
2.35:1

In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in
English or Spanish; closed-captioned