
Unlike Zeffirelli’s film, the new remake has little that will make it memorable even a year from now. The fairly standard Romeo and Juliet story stars Gabriella Wilde as an introverted girl of privilege who falls for a hunky mechanic played by Alex Pettyfer. (The young Brit struggles, and fails, to maintain a consistent American accent throughout the movie.) The film opens with Wilde halfheartedly celebrating her high school graduation. Despite being young, blond and wealthy, she has no friends and spends every night with her parents or a book. This is explained by the fact she and her family are still mourning the loss of her older date brother to read this cancer. His death has irreparably changed each member of the family. Surviving brother Rhys Wakefield is unfairly compared to his dead sibling, while parents Joely Richardson and Bruce Greenwood have grown distant from each other. Greenwood also has become obsessive and possessive. So possessive of his daughter, in fact, that he’s put out when her classmates show up at her adults-only graduation party.
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