Romeo & Juliet [VHS]

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood
Studio: Paramount

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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 138 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.5 x 1.2

ISBN: 6300216039
UPC: 097360680935
EAN: 9786300216037
ASIN: 6300216039

Release Date: September 10, 1996
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Product Description
Product Details Actors: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood Directors: Franco Zeffirelli Writers: Franco Zeffirelli, Franco Brusati, Masolino D'Amico, William Shakespeare Producers: Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne, Richard B. Goodwin Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Rated: G (General Audience) Number of tapes: 1 Studio: Paramount VHS Release Date: September 10, 1996 Run Time: 138 minutes

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Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles of, well, kids. Seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey play the titular pair, the Bard's star-crossed lovers who defy a running feud between their families in order to be together in love. Typically played on stage and in previous film productions by adult actors, the innocent look and rawness of Whiting and Hussey resonated at the time with a burgeoning youth movement from San Francisco to Prague. The tragic romance at the center of the story also clicked with anti-authority sentiments, but even without that, Zeffirelli scores points by validating the ideals and passions of strong-willed adolescents. Less successful are scenes requiring the actors to have a fuller grasp of the text, though the best thing going remains the unambiguous duel between Romeo and Tybalt (Michael York). Lavishly photographed by Pasquale de Santis on location in Italy, this Romeo and Juliet brought a different tone and dimension to a story that had become tiresome in reverential presentations. --Tom Keogh

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