Description: Tim Burton brings his trademark sense of dark whimsy to this stage-to-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical. Johnny Depp reteams with the director to play the titular Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Helena Bonham Car...
Description Tim Burton brings his trademark sense of dark whimsy to this stage-to-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical. Johnny Depp reteams with the director to play the titular Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen as his co-stars.
Credits
Producer:
John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Richard D. Zanuck, Walter F. Parkes
Score Composer:
Stephen Sondheim
Editorial Reviews A bleedin' masterpiece Daily Mail (03/19/2008)
The show couldn't have fallen into better hands Hollywood Reporter (01/29/2008)
Sweeney Todd is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece New York Times (01/29/2008)
Sweeney Todd is a thriller-diller from start to finish: scary, monstrously funny and melodically thrilling. And Depp is simply stupendous Rolling Stone (01/29/2008)
This represents one happy instance of a film made by a director without stage experience that genuinely serves the intentions of the original piece Variety (01/29/2008)