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Romeo and Juliet
Directed by
Franco Zeffirelli
PG
1968
2h 18m
Drama
,
Romance
7.6
95%
74%
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Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
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Cast of Romeo and Juliet
Leonard Whiting
Romeo
Olivia Hussey
Juliet
John McEnery
Mercutio
Michael York
Tybalt
Milo O’Shea
Friar Laurence
Pat Heywood
the Nurse
Robert Stephens
the Prince
Bruce Robinson
Benvolio
Paul Hardwick
Lord Capulet
Natasha Parry
Lady Capulet
Antonio Pierfederici
Lord Montague
Esmeralda Ruspoli
Lady Montague
Roberto Bisacco
Lord Paris
Roy Holder
Peter
Keith Skinner
Balthazar
Dyson Lovell
Sampson
Richard Warwick
Gregory
Roberto Antonelli
Abraham
Carlo Palmucci
Complementary Role (uncredited)
Salvatore Billa
Complementary Role (uncredited)
Claudio De Davide
Complementary Role (uncredited)
Paola Tedesco
Complementary Role (uncredited)
Laurence Olivier
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Antonio Marcolini
Capulet Party Guest (uncredited)
Andrés José Cruz Soublette
Complementary role (uncredited)
Romeo and Juliet Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The success of the film depends upon Whiting and Miss Hussey... They are magnificent.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
A staple of lazy high school English teachers everywhere.
New York Times
Renata Adler
Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet is a lovely, sensitive, friendly popularization of the play...
Reno Gazette-Journal
Forrest Hartman
The best screen adaptation of Shakespeare's wonderful romance.
Kansas City Star
KC Star Staff
Writer-director Franco Zeffirelli does some major surgery on the fabric of Shakespeare's drama and finds a vibrant, surging, full-blooded new life beneath.
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
Like his contemporary Luchino Visconti, Zeffirelli uses his opera-directing knowledge to get the most out of the story with gorgeous costumes, striking production design, and crisp cinematography...
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Rudie Obias
There's elements of subversion, violence, and sex that you'd see in other envelope-pushing movies from that time, such as Barbarella, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary's Baby, and others.
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
As Romeo and Juliet, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting exhibit an innocence, naïveté, and verve that enlivens their characters, making them feel startlingly modern even as they're reciting Shakespearean verse.
Tempo (National Council of Churches)
Harvey G. Cox
Thank God for Shakespeare, and viva Zeffirelli, the moviemaker who can bring Shakespeare's genius even to a generation of cool, television-conditioned McLuhanite kids.
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
This more-or-less unprecedented naturalism in screen Shakespeare is part and parcel of why the film works so well, and why it was such a huge success in 1968.
Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Neither lead is a skilled actor, but the film's lush and unrepentant romanticism carries the day
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Despite major trimmings of Shakespeare's text, this is a lovely version of the much-filmed play, largely due to the casting of the leads with handsome, unknown teenagers.
Common Sense Media
Scott G. Mignola
Wonderful, but a little too mature for some kids.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Franco Zeffirelli's rendition of Shakespeare's classic tragic love story gets off to a slow and rocky start but eventually takes hold once its titular leads take over.
Netflix
James Rocchi
Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet is best version on film.
Lawrence Journal-World
Jon Niccum
Still the best adaptation of Shakespeare's most popular effort
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