A blue collar construction worker in Chicago with a volatile temper and a dysfunctional family is asked to fill in when a tiny community theater attempts to stage Romeo and Juliet. A touching, complicated movie about family and art and fathers and children. One of the best movies of 2024. And, my favorite movie genre. How art is made: 'Topsy-Turvy' 'Day for Night' 'Tropic Thunder' 'Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story' Ultimately, indeed, The play goes on. A great local Chicago actor stars in the movie, and slowly, grudgingly, as Romeo: Keith Kupferer. What a great face. What a great presence. Costarring his daughter. When the play within the movie begins, the curtain opens, and these familiar words heard by audiences for 497 years are spoken: 'Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.' A fantastic movie that I recommend you see.

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