Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss
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| Directed by | Phil Nibbelink |
| Produced by | Margit Friesacher Phil Nibbelink |
| Written by | Phil Nibbelink William Shakespeare (play) |
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare |
| Starring | Daniel Trippett Patricia Trippett Chip Albers Michael Toland Stephen Goldberg Phil Nibbelink Chanelle Nibbelink |
| Narrated by | Michael Toland |
| Music by | Christopher Page Tommy Carter Stephen Bashaw Jack Waldenmaier Steven Wenger Bill Holloman Curt Macdonald Kirk Cirillo |
| Edited by | Phil Nibbelink |
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Phil Nibbelink Productions
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| Distributed by | Indican Pictures (USA) MarVista Entertainment (International) |
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71 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,000,000 |
| Box office | $463,002 |
Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss is a 2006 American animated romantic fantasy film loosely following the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The film is about two star-crossed seals, Romeo and Juliet (voiced by Daniel and Patricia Trippet respectively), who fall in love against the wishes of their warring families. It was released in Europe in mid-2006 and on October 27 in the United States.
The film was written, animated, and directed entirely by one man, former Disney animator Phil Nibbelink. The film, created on an estimated budget of $2 million, took 4½ years to complete and required 112,000 frames, all drawn by Nibbelink on a Wacom tablet directly into Flash 4 in combination with Moho software. Despite the film's negative reviews, it won an award in Best in Show at the Southwest Film Festival.
Warring Capulets (Michael Toland) and Montagues (Stephen Goldberg), portrayed as Steller and California sea lions respectively, have their feud watched sadly by Capulet's only daughter, Juliet (Patricia Trippett). A fight on the shore is ended when the Prince (Phil Nibbelink), a large and monstrous elephant seal, appears and warns the two groups that, should there be any more disturbance, the seal who caused it shall be exiled to Shark Island, a fin shaped rock where a shark lives. Romeo (Daniel Tripett), Montague's only son, is depressed, wishing to fall in love with someone. His humorous friend, Mercutio (Chip Albers), urges him and another of his friends, Benvolio (Sam Gold), to go to a Capulet party later that evening. They attend the party, covered in white sand to look like Capulets, and Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight. Juliet, however, was promised by her father to marry the Prince, who attends the party. Romeo and his friends manage to wreak havoc, and are revealed to be Montagues. Later that evening, the play's balcony scene is recreated on a cliff on the beach where a tree grows. Romeo promises Juliet that they shall marry the next morning, and she will not have to marry the Prince.
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