Love Is All There Is (1996)

During the staging of a school production of Romeo and Juliet, the two adolescent leads fall in love with each other. Their respective families, who are business rivals and from different social backgrounds, oppose the relationship.

If I hadn't been told, I wouldn't be able to tell this apart from a below average Woody Allen movie. Anyway, the premise from the original Shakespeare play -- family feud -- has been transformed into a merely economic and cultural problem, and even that seems utterly secondary to the plot. The main theme here is the parents' delusion that their kids somehow will act differently from how they -- the parents -- acted when they were their age, despite their genetic commonalities. Although this is potentially interesting, this film is a parade of vulgarity and uninspired scripting which is barely watchable only due to the somewhat competent acting and staging.

Rating: 30