Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Lloyd Kaufman

Writers:

Jason Green (writer)
James Gunn (writer)

Release Date:

28 February 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Body Piercing, Kinky Sex, Dismemberment. The Things That Made Shakespeare Great

Plot:

A modern, punk adaptation of Shakespeare's classic. Told irreverently, this film attempts to impact...

Plot Keywords:

Punk | Dream Like | Female Nudity | Genital Monster | Severed Finger

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Jane Jensen	...	Juliet Capulet
Will Keenan	...	Tromeo Que
Valentine Miele	...	Murray Martini
William Beckwith	...	Cappy Capulet (as Maximillian Shaun)
Steve Gibbons	...	London Arbuckle
Sean Gunn	...	Sammy Capulet
Debbie Rochon	...	Ness
Lemmy	...	Narrator
Stephen Blackehart	...	Benny Que
Flip Brown	...	Father Lawrence
Patrick Connor	...	Tyrone Capulet
Earl McKoy	...	Monty Que
Gene Terinoni	...	Detective Ernie Scalus
Wendy Adams	...	Ingrid Capulet
Tamara Craig Thomas	...	Georgie Capulet

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality, violence/gore, language and some drug content.

Runtime:

107 min | Australia:137 min (2001 uncut re-release)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Iceland:16 | USA:R (cut) | South Korea:18 | Italy:VM14 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Troma Entertainment

Trivia:

Posters for various other Troma films are visible throughout both households.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Juliet is playing guitar in her bedroom, she goes to set the guitar down and a hand rises from the floor to take it from her.

Quotes:

Tromeo Que: What light from yonder Plexiglas breaks?

Movie Connections:

References Once Were Warriors (1994)

Soundtrack:

Martyr

Shakespeare on acid? Possibly.

A very bizarre bringing to the screen of William Shakespeare's tragic love story.

The Que family and the Capulet family have a long running hatred of one another which often results in violence. The hatred has something to do with a film company and the fact that everyone is pretty much crazy. In the middle of all of this insanity are Tromeo and Juliet, literature's most famous "star crossed" lovers that fall for each other at first sight and problems arise when they realize whose family the other belongs to.

The film follows the basic plot of the original play remarkably well and key scenes even use the original, or close to original, lines. But the infamous Troma bizarreness pervades the film from beginning to end. That makes for a movie that is definitely not for all tastes, but it is nonetheless pretty inventive. Tyrone (Tybalt in Shakespeare) has a particularly funny death scene. 7/10

Many differently edited and rated versions exist. Each contains violence, profanity, drug use, and sex, all with a big dose of bizarreness.