Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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Release Date: December 21, 2007
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: John Logan
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jayne Wisener, Sacha Baron Cohen
Genre: Musical, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for graphic bloody violence)
Official Website: SweeneyToddmovie.com
Plot Summary: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again." Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli.

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Total: $26,719,000

Duke

i'm pumped for this movie

Blitzkrieg

ya looks cool as shit and very different from what we're used to seeing

The Half Boy

A Tim Burton movie starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter? :O Has the world turned on it's head???

I'm looking forward to this movie, though. Should MosDef be good.

Tomorrow's Just An Excuse Away,
So I Pull My Collar Up And Face The Cold, On My Own.
The Earth Laughs Beneath My Heavy Feet,
At The Blasphemy In My Old Jangly Walk.

Bunson181

I can't wait. I loved the play, and the movie looks awesome.

Erin

Monk's First Lady

This looks like it could be awesome. Helena and Johnny should make for a good on-screen combo.

Beaker

I hate musicals, but I'll see it

U MAD

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