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Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of
Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller "Sweeney Todd."
Depp stars in
the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who 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, Sweeney Todd
becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who
never thereafter were heard from again."
Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as
Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney’s amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies.
The
cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends
Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge’s wicked associate Beadle
Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo
Pirelli.
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