The Montagues and Capulets are driving souped-up roadsters, listening to Radiohead, and living on “Verona Beach”-but otherwise sounding exactly the same-in Australian director Baz Luhrmann's delirious grunge-culture Shakespeare adaptation, his first Hollywood film after his eye-popping Australian debut, Strictly Ballroom. Leonardo DiCaprio (a year before Titanic) is the alternately tender and passionate Romeo, rollin' with his gun-toting crew until meeting the pure, ephemeral Juliet (Claire Danes). Filled with religious imagery, pop references, and even a novel rendition of Prince's When Doves Cry, Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet is Shakespeare filtered through both Miami beach culture and the visual excess of Fellini; years on, it's also become a fascinating document of mid-nineties youth culture, or at least Hollywood's version of it. “Rebel Without a Cause for the '90s,” wrote Time, while Variety described it as “no doubt the most aggressively modern, assertively trendy adaptation of Shakespeare ever filmed.”