![]() That certainly worked for the wonderful 1998 Best Picture Oscar winner Shakespeare in Love, but it lacks the desired punch here, instead only garnering some mild laughs along with a spirited performance by the always-impressive Kaitlyn Dever ( Booksmart, Dopesick), who plays the title role with spunk and contemporary feminist sensibility. ![]() The conceit of this adaptation, however, was to make one major change: to place it all back in the exact same period that Shakespeare did. ![]() Weber, who were responsible for the terrific films (500) Days of Summer and The Spectacular Now.Īnd it was indeed on paper originally as a book by Rebecca Serle, When You Were Mine, which placed the R&J parallel in modern times like the aforementioned films also did. ![]() Both were apparent inspirations for screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. On paper it might have sounded good, the kind of high-concept comedy popular in ’90s romps based on classics that included Ten Things I Hate About You and Clueless. Doing yet another takeoff on Romeo and Juliet hardly gets points for originality, and the latest - which focuses on Juliet’s rival for Romeo, her cousin Rosaline - is strictly for the YA crowd. ![]()
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