Critic Reviews
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David Ansen, Newsweek
This arty melodrama is not likely to make teenage America get down with Shakespeare.
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Todd McCarthy, Variety
This transferral of the tragedy of the Moor to a contempo American high school is something that never should have gone further than a class assignment to see if it could be made to work.
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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
In the end, the Shakespearean ideas collapse on film because of the youthful callowness of the characters.
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Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above 10 Things I Hate About You ... and quite a bit below Romeo + Juliet.
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
It's a doomy dirge of a movie, in which the protagonists, or at least the actors who play them, aren't equipped to handle their outsize passions.
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Cast
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Mekhi Phiferas Odin James -
Josh Hartnettas Hugo Goulding -
Julia Stilesas Desi Brable
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Elden Hensonas Roger Rodriguez -
Andrew Keeganas Michael Casio -
Rain Phoenixas Emily
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