Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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  • Opened December 21, 2007 
  • 1 hr 57 min
  • R | graphic bloody violence

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+. More on child suitability

  • Unjustly sent to prison, a man 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, he becomes Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who "shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again." Sweeney's amorous accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, creates diabolical meat pies. Based on the hit Broadway musical, which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, also known as Sweeney Todd. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Director: Tim Burton
  • Genres: Drama, Music/Performing Arts, Suspense/Thriller

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Such a Good Musical.

by doctoraggie16

If you look past all of the gore scenes, this movie is certainly brilliant. For weeks after watching, I still had 'Joanna' stuck in my head. This musical will forever be a favorite of mine....

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Helena Bonham Carter may be Burton's inamorata, but apart from that, she is perfectly cast, not as a vulgar fishwife type but as a petite beauty with dark, sad eyes and a pouting mouth and a persistent fantasy that she and the barber will someday settle by the seaside. Not bloody likely. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

An elegant horror film, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, that takes pleasure in its own theatricality, gives pleasure with caustic wit, trusts the power of Stephen Sondheim's score and exults in flights of fancy that only a movie can provide. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Kirk Honeycutt

Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

This Sweeney is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending as it flies on the wings of Sondheim's most thunderously exciting score. Read full review

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Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."