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Release Date: 2007 Duration: 117 min Cast: Johnny Depp, Ed Sanders, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Harry Taylor, Sacha Baron Cohen, Timothy Spall, Laura Michelle Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Stewart Head, Peter Bowles, Philip Philmar ...MORE Cast: Johnny Depp, Ed Sanders, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Harry Taylor, Sacha Baron Cohen, Timothy Spall, Laura Michelle Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Stewart Head, Peter Bowles, Philip Philmar, Alan Rickman ...LESS Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Horror, Supernatural, Musical, Drama, Musical Drama Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 horror musical film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett,... MORE Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 horror musical film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during the film's production. It stars Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd and Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. However, Depp's vocal performance, despite being criticized as lacking certain musical qualities, was generally thought by critics to suit the part. LESS |
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Directed by: Harold PrinceWith: Angela Lansbury, George HearnStephen Sondheim's award winning Broadway musical about a barber who turns his customers into meat pies. -- VideoDetective.com.
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