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Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now Eve Annenberg’s gritty, funny feature film sets William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with Brooklyn-inflected English and Yiddish spoken by a talented cast.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes75%
Metacritic56/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Eve AnnenbergDirector
- Eve AnnenbergWriter
Cast
- Lazer WeissLazer / Romeo
- Melissa WeiszJuliet / Faggie
- Mendy ZafirMendy / Benvolio
- Yoeli WeissMo / Mercutio
- Josef Yossi FriedmanTybalt / Ty
- Eve AnnenbergAva / Nurse
- Isaac SchoenfeldIsaac / Rabbi
- Yelena ShmulensonLady Cauplet