More members of the cast include Jesse Bradford (Balthasar) Vondie Curtis-Hall (Captain Prince) Brian Dennehy (Ted Montague) Christina Pickles (Caroline Montague) Paul Sorvino (Fulgencio Capulet) Diane Venora (Gloria Capulet) John Leguizamo (Tybalt) Miriam Margolyes (The Nurse) Dash Mihok (Benvolio) Harold Perrineau (Mercutio) Pete Postlethwaite (Father Laurence) Paul Rudd (Dave Paris) M. Emmet Walsh (Apothecary)

This version occurs as transposition of Shakespeare's play into a present period, by using br& replaced by guns and skyscrapers instead of castles. A action is edited in a heavily conventionalised manner, by having frequent utilise of fast cutting of shots, causing a film to exist when widely described as "Shakespeare for the MTV generation"[http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0000494.cfm] [http://www.pifmagazine.com/SID/779/]. Still, a pic utilizes Shakespeare's original dialogue, albeit using certain scenes rearranged.

A story will require place around Verona Beach, California, styled after Miami, and the fancied desert-such as place known as Mantua. Virtually all of the picture is filmed in & around Mexico City.

A film differs from either a play in this Paris (or even Dave Paris, a modern renaming) is does'nt flushed, & that a Montagues provoke a initial fight instead of the Capulets. Numerous lines in a film refer to weapons, and then to save changing a script out of a original, the cast wield guns by using fictional brand names like "Sword" or "Dagger".

Awards and nominations
Berlin International Film Festival 1997, it won: Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) Alfred Bauer Prize

Academy Awards 1996 nominations: Best Art Counsel (Catherine Martin) Set Decoration (Brigitte Broch)