Baz Luhrmann helped adapt this classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet (Claire Danes) is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris (Paul Rudd) as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love. Commissioned by Jeremy B. (2/14/24)

Release date: October 27, 1996 (USA)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios
Adapted from: Romeo and Juliet
Box office: $147.6 million