[bannie]

9th-graders fall in love with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussy. They have no idea that they are now 53 and 55.

Zeffirelli does a beautiful job of "translation."

[LisaMalia]

9th-graders fall in love with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussy. They have no idea that they are now 53 and 55.

Yes, I fell in love with Leonard Whiting back when Zeffirelli's film first came out. I bought the 33 1/3 soundtrack which had the dialog of the movie. I think I was in the 9th grade at the time, and I memorized most of the lines from the movie. I still love to watch it (my son got the DVD for me last Christmas), and can still recite almost the entire film.

Thanks to Zeffirelli, Shakespeare's other works became interesting to me as well.