Romeo and Juliet is swashbuckling adolescent derring-do if the leads don't snuff themselves in the end.
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What's the rumpus?
You think that I'm some guinea, fresh off the boat, and you can kick me. But I'm too big for that now.
If I'd known we were gonna cast our feelings into words, I'd have memorized the Song of Solomon.
Are you giving me the high hat??!??!??
I open my mouth and the whole world turns smart.
I'm stunned I don't know this movie, but I don't.
I'm stunned too: erika, you must rent this movie ASAP.
If you can't trust a fix, what can you trust?
(And yes, rent it, stat, Erika.)
Adding to the chorus of "rent it now, erika" - you will not be sorry. Loads of great dialog performed by a nifty cast.
And, come on, it's crime fiction inspired by Hammett's Red Harvest starring Gabriel Byrne as one of the slipperiest anti-heroes to grace pop culture. I think it's the Coen's finest film. Maybe The Big Lebowski is equal.