Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street [MA 15+]

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Saturday - April 12 - 7:30 PM - 116 minutes

First feature
(screens with Tim Burton's Corpse Bride)

2007

DTS Digital Sound

Director: Tim Burton

Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman

Tim Burton's new gothic fantasy, based on the Broadway musical (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim), runs red with vast quantities of blood and song. Wrongly sent into exile, Benjamin Barker (Depp) returns to 19th century London, finding his wife dead and daughter owned by the cruel Judge Turpin (a subtly diabolical Alan Rickman). To extract his bloody revenge he opens a barbershop offering the closest shave in town (see where it's heading) with his twisted tenant Mrs. Lovett. Told almost entirely through song, it's devilish, brutal and filled with Burton's cinematic visual signatures. (AB)

Rating: ***

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