Sweeney Todd : the demon barber of Fleet Street

Resource Information

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Label

Sweeney Todd : the demon barber of Fleet Street

Title remainder

the demon barber of Fleet Street

Statement of responsibility

Dreamworks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Parkes/MacDonald Production ; a Zanuck Company production ; produced by John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Walter Parkes, Richard D. Zanuck ; screenplay by John Logan ; directed by Tim Burton

Title variation

Demon barber of Fleet Street

Contributor

• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Dreamworks Pictures
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Zanuck Company
• Baron Cohen, Sacha, 1971-
• Bond, C. G., (Christopher Godfrey), 1945-
• Bonham Carter, Helena, 1966-
• Bower, Jamie Campbell
• Bowles, Peter, 1936-
• Burton, Tim, 1958-
• Depp, Johnny
• Head, Anthony Stewart, 1954-
• Kelly, Laura Michelle
• Logan, John, 1961-
• MacDonald, Laurie
• Parkes, Walter F
• Rickman, Alan
• Sanders, Ed, 1993-
• Sondheim, Stephen
• Spall, Timothy, 1957-
• Wisener, Jayne
• Zanuck, Richard D

Subject

• Barberia -- Inglaterra | London -- Teatro
• Barbers -- England | London -- Drama
• Cannibalism -- Drama
• Children of prisoners -- Drama
• Delitos -- Inglaterra | London -- Teatro
• Ex-convicts -- Psychology -- Drama
• Fathers and daughters -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Fleet Street (London, England) -- Drama
• Horror films
• Judicial error -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Meat grinders -- Drama
• Musical -- Feature
• Musical films
• Prisoners' families -- Drama
• Revenge -- Drama
• Serial murderers -- Drama
• Slasher -- Feature
• Sweeney Todd (Motion picture)
• Thriller -- Feature
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Todd, Sweeney (Legendary character) -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• trueFilm adaptations
• Horror films
• Musical
• trueMusical films
• Slasher
• Teatro
• Thriller
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A musical adaptation of the story of Sweeney Todd, a man sent to prison 15 years earlier, who returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin. Returning to his old neighborhood with his old life destroyed, he opens a barber shop as the instrument of his plot. With the help of his new and amorous accomplice Mrs. Lovett, owner of the downstairs pie shop and in need of better ingredients, Todd works his way through his list of enemies

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Dariusz Wolski ; editor, Chris Lebenzon ; music and lyrics, Stephen Sondheim ; costume designer, Colleen Atwood ; production designer, Dante Ferretti ; visual effects supervisor, Chas Jarrett

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; graphic bloody violence

Language note

• In English, or dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles
• Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.S554

LC item number

S944649 2008

PerformerNote

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ed Sanders, Anthony Head, Peter Bowles

Runtime

117

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action