ROMEO AND JULIET in contemporary California, only without the poetry or any other particular discernible reason to exist. Nicole Oakley (Kirsten Dunst, who's growing nicely into her looks) is a rich, rather languidly rebellious seventeen-year-old (at one point she wears what appears to be an antique Blondie promo T-shirt) who falls hard for classmate Carlos Nunez (Jay Hernandez), a straight arrow football star and A-student who's on the fast track out of the barrio. Later, we find that Nicole's personal life, unsurprisingly, is considerably messier than we originally assumed. Her father (Bruce Davison) is emotionally distant (he's an earnest liberal congressman who, ...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
95 mins