“It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes.”

— Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://web.archive.org/web/20000510134015/http://www.salon.com/oct96/romeo961104.html of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)

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