What is Romeo + Juliet / Hamlet about?

Double Feature: ROMEO + JULIET, 1996, 20th Century Fox, 120 min. Before he set his sights on THE GREAT GATSBY, writer-director-producer Baz Luhrmann re-envisioned Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers as Gen X gangsters, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. HAMLET, 2000, Park Circus/Miramax, 112 min. Dir. Michael Almereyda. Transposing some of theater’s most famous soliloquies to Blockbuster Video stores and high-rise apartments, this powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play is set among the corporate elite of Manhattan. Here the title character (Ethan Hawke), the son of a murdered Wall Street CEO, employs a student film to “catch the conscience” of his father’s killer and exact revenge. The all-star supporting cast includes Kyle MacLachlan, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Sam Shepard and Bill Murray.

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What is Romeo + Juliet / Hamlet about?: Double Feature: ROMEO + JULIET, 1996, 20th Century Fox, 120 min. Before he set his sights on THE GREAT GATSBY, writer-director-producer Baz Luhrmann re-envisioned Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers as Gen X gangsters, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

HAMLET, 2000, Park Circus/Miramax, 112 min. Dir. Michael Almereyda. Transposing some of theater’s most famous soliloquies to Blockbuster Video stores and high-rise apartments, this powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play is set among the corporate elite of Manhattan. Here the title character (Ethan Hawke), the son of a murdered Wall Street CEO, employs a student film to “catch the conscience” of his father’s killer and exact revenge. The all-star supporting cast includes Kyle MacLachlan, Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Sam Shepard and Bill Murray.