Romeo + Juliet Released Date, Rating, Genre, Cast

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Released Date

October 27, 1996

Distributor

Twentieth Century Fox

Genre

Romance

Rating

PG-13

Worldwide Gross

Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$46,351,345 + $101,203,653 = $147,554,998

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul Rudd, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Jamie Kennedy, Christina Pickles, Brian Dennehy, Jesse Bradford, Harold Perrineau, M Emmet Walsh, Dash Mihok, Paul Sorvino, Pete Postlethwaite, Diane Venora, Vondie Curtis-Hall

Leonardo DiCaprio

as Romeo

Paul Rudd

as Dave Paris

Claire Danes

as Juliet

John Leguizamo

as Tybalt

Jamie Kennedy

as Sampson

Christina Pickles

as Caroline Montague

1938-2020

Brian Dennehy

as Ted Montague

Jesse Bradford

as Balthasar

Harold Perrineau

as Mercutio

M Emmet Walsh

as Apothecary

Dash Mihok

as Benvolio

1939-2022

Paul Sorvino

as Fulgencio Capulet

1946-2011

Pete Postlethwaite

as Father Laurence

Diane Venora

as Gloria Capulet

Vondie Curtis-Hall

as Captain Prince

About Romeo + Juliet

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

About

Baz Luhrmann film that modernizes William Shakespeare's play about two star-crossed lovers in Verona.

Trivia

Claire Danes won the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance. The film runs exactly two hours long which follows Shakespeare's line from the Prologue, "Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage."