“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, February 9, for a Valentine’s Day-ish double feature inspired by one of our favourite filmmakers, Baz Luhrmann. We’re getting in the mood for love with a romantical pairing of fan-faves including ROMEO + JULIET and MOULIN ROUGE!.

See one, or see ’em both for one sweet price!

In director Baz Luhrmann‘s very contemporary and highly stylized take on William Shakespeare‘s classic romantic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering, yet very hip, suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard’s dialogue remains. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes lead a stellar ensemble cast that includes John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Paul Rudd, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino, Brian Dennehy, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Miriam Margolyes.

“Luhrmann’s gleefully cinematic version of the play is so relentlessly inventive and innovative, it takes 20 minutes to get a grasp on how appropriate is his approach to the material.” (Time Out)

Thursday, February 9
ROMEO + JULIET
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Single Film Tickets HERE

Why not make it a double feature with MOULIN ROUGE at 9:00 pm? Double bill tickets HERE

Saturday, February 11 Encore Screening!
Doors 2:25 pm | Movie 2:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Single Film Tickets HERE

ROMEO + JULIET (Baz Luhrmann, 1996 / 120 mins / PG) A hyper-kinetic take on the classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Young Juliet Capulet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents when she meets and falls in love with the son of her family’s nemesis, Romeo Montague, when he crashes her family’s masked ball.

*Minors OK. Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service.
*Rio Theatre Groupons and Rio Theatre passes are OK for any single film screening only. Please redeem at the box office. Advance sales end an hour before showtime; unless otherwise noted, tickets are always available for purchase at the box office prior to showtime. All Rio Theatre tickets are final sale.
*If you are looking to redeem either a Rio Theatre gift certificate or Groupon to any regular Rio Theatre screening: You can either email us in advance <[email protected]> and give us a “heads up,” or do it at the box office prior to showtime. (We seat 400+ people and our regular screenings are very rarely at capacity – you should not have issues being admitted.)