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Title: Modern setting, but the basic Shakespeare is unhurt...
Review: Romeo smoking cigarettes? The family feud being played out in fast cars with faster assault rifles? Well, yes. But Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes speak the classic lines surprisingly well, and the essential tale of ill-fated and fatal love comes through this jazzed-up version anyway. When this was released on the big screen, I took my teen daughter to see it, and I think she got a lot out of it. So, while the Olivia Hussey/Leonard Whiting version from the late 1960's is still my favorite, this telling is not at all bad.
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