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One of the most popular musicals of all time, WEST SIDE STORY earned director Robert Wise an Oscar for Best Director as well as nine other Academy Awards. Set in New York\'s Upper West Side in the 1950s, where racial tensions thrive between rival gangs: the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Caucasian Jets. Maria (Natalie Wood), a Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother, Bernardo (George Chakiris), is the leader of the Sharks gets caught in the middle when she falls in love with a young, hopeful Polish boy, Tony (Richard Beymer), who used to belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff (Russ Tamblyn). Tragedy ensues after Tony tries to stop the fighting and marks their dedicated love affair with violence and desperation. This award-winning adaptation of the classic
Romeo and Juliet. features the music and lyric by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (
Bernstein: West Side Story) that made West Side Story such a popular Broadway and West End production, and the film does it justice.
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