Sweeney Todd

Release Date: 2007-12-21
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Musical


Director: Tim Burton

Cast: Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd Helena Bonham Carter - Mrs. Lovett Alan Rickman - Judge Turpin Timothy Spall - Beadle Bamford Jamie Campbell - Anthony Hope Jayne Wisener - Johanna Sacha Baron Cohen - Signor Adolfo Pirelli


Summary: Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton reteam following their worldwide blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to bring a Broadway masterpiece to the big screen--Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Based on a true events, this darkly comic musical tale tells the story of London barber Benjamin Barker (Depp--Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) unjustly sentenced to a prison term in Australia by a judge who covets Barker's wife. When Barker returns to England, he takes up his former profession, using the name Sweeney Todd--and slits the throats of customers who come into his shop. Now, while Sweeney confronts to problem of accumulating corpses, a local businesswoman finds a novel and enterprising use for the bodies . . . a bloody business that profits them both.

Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical is based on the book Sweeney Todd by Christopher Wood and the play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. The book for the Broadway musical is by Hugh Wheeler.