Morton Movie Night: Romeo + Juliet

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.
And the rest, as they say, is history!

Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes,
John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau,
Pete Postlethwaite
Twentieth Century Fox; Director Baz Luhrman PG-13; 120 min; 1996

Admission is free! Donations are welcome!

Refreshments will be available.