Transporting Shakespeare’s indelible doomed romance from Verona, Italy, to the vibrant modern landscape of Verona Beach, California, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet reimagines the Montagues and Capulets as warring mafia gangs, whose turf battles are disrupted by the star-crossed meeting of two of their youngest family members: Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), a Montague, and Juliet (Claire Danes), a Capulet.
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