Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope. Fifteen years earlier, he was falsely convicted and exiled by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after Barker's wife Lucy. Barker adopts the alias "Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old Fleet Street shop, situated above Mrs. Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop, where she sells the "worst pies in London". Lovett tells him that Turpin raped Lucy, who then poisoned herself with arsenic. The couple's daughter, Johanna, is now Turpin's ward. Todd vows revenge, and re-opens his barber shop after Mrs. Lovett, who loves him unrequitedly, presents him with his old straight razors. Anthony becomes enamored with Johanna, but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his henchman, Beadle Bamford.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller |
Country: | United Kingdom, United States |
Produced By: | Patrick Mccormick, John Logan, Richard D. Zanuck, Walter F. Parkes, Katterli Frauenfelder, Brenda Berrisford, Derek Frey, Laurie Macdonald |
Directed By: | Tim Burton |
Written By: | Christopher Bond, Hugh Wheeler, John Logan |
Cast: | Ava May, Jody Halse, Tatsujiro Oto, Jayne Wisener, Stefana Brancastle, Shane James Bordas, Stephen Ashfield, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mandy Holliday, Vesna Vujat, Kas Graham, David McKail, Jonathan Williams, Johnny Depp, Colin Higgins, Laura Meakin, Jane Fowler, Jess Murphy, Les Loveday, Tim Glanfield, Cecilia Colby, Gracie May, Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, Nick Thomas-Webster, Philip Philmar, Emma Hewitt, Kasia Halpin, Julie Eagleton, Graham Bohea, Adam Roach, Jamie Campbell Bower, Aron Paramor, Leigh Daniels, Ed Sanders, Sue Maund, Nicholas Hewetson, Helena Bonham Carter, Lee Whitlock, William Oxborrow, Sophie Morris-Sheppard, Laura Michelle Kelly, Liza Sadovy, Gabriella Freeman, Nick Haverson, Gemma Grey, Marcus Cunningham, Anthony Head, John Paton, Gaye Brown, Harry Taylor |
In Theaters: | Dec 21, 2007 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 56 minutes |
Production: | DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation, The Zanuck Company |
Budget: | $50,000,000 |
Box Office: | $52,898,073 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |