FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
West Side Story
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer92%as of 2023-08-07
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.4/10as of 2023-08-07
- Metacritic86/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, written by Ernest Lehman, and produced by Wise. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same title, which in turn was inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris and was photographed by Daniel L.
At a glance
- Genres
- Music / Romance / Drama / Crime
- Original language
- Spanish
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